Cesspools that are inland are sometimes so close to aquifers that sewage pollutes them and can travel through springs to beaches and the ocean. When researchers placed dye in shoreline cesspools in ...

A former Hawaii lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison in a federal corruption case that’s drawn attention to a perennial problem in the islands: the tens of thousands of cesspools ...

With blue-gloved hands, cesspool professional Salvatore Motta fed an endoscopic camera through the basement house trap of a ranch-style home in Smithtown. The cesspool appeared original to the house, ...