Hundreds of low-income residents of Lowndes County, a rural, majority-Black county in Alabama, have lived for years with failing septic tanks, Connor Sheets reported for AL.com news in July 2021. Some residents, Sheets wrote, rely on “straight pipes that spew raw sewage into open cesspools in their yards.” A grassroots…
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