WASHINGTON - Sept. 17, 2009) The city of Jeffersonville, Ind., has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems that will significantly reduce the city's longstanding sewage overflows into the Ohio River in a comprehensive Clean Water Act settlement with federal and state government, the Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of Indiana announced today.

For additional information, contact:

Ginny Phillips
U.S. EPA
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington DC 20460
(202) 564-6139
Ginny Phillips (phillips.ginny@epa.gov)