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The environmental organization Save the Sound has filed a lawsuit against the regional sewer authority for the city of New Haven, Connecticut, and the nearby community after a burst pipe last July released 2.1 million gallons of sewage into the Mill River.
The lawsuit said the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority knew the Whitney Avenue Pressure Sewer piping has been corroded since 2014 but failed to properly monitor and investigate it in the last five years.
Last year a sinkhole developed. The authority planned to re-enforce the pipe, but then the sewage line burst before construction.
The sewage spill began in the Mill River and flowed into Long Island Sound.