1.   Georgetown is the only section of Redding with municipal sewers and water.

2.   However, sewage pollution from various municipal sewer overflow systems makes the river unfit for swimming in the Albany area.

3.   If that amount were amortized over a few years, Higgins says, it would actually cost less than hooking into a municipal sewer line.

4.   The galvanizing and coating processes yield acidic industrial wastewater that is supposed to be neutralized before it is eventually discharged into the Northridge municipal sewer system.

5.   The ocean site is also contaminated with PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, which were discharged through municipal sewer pipes.

6.   Long polluted by direct discharge of industrial sewage and municipal sewer overflows, the bay is in the process of being cleaned up.