Aging, decaying sewer infrastructure can cause wastewater to escape system pipes allowing untreated water to flow into streams. In Bucks County Pennsylvania, an overwhelmed system will cost the operators, and likely the users who depend on the system, a sizable fine. The Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority owns and operates hundreds of miles of sewer pipes, treatment plants, and wastewater collection systems, mostly in Bucks County.  The authority’s service areas have suffered from many sewer overflows, including more than 100 since 2014 in Plumstead Township alone. During that time, multiple overflows, some flowing into the Delaware River, have also occurred in Bensalem, Richland, Doylestown Borough, Middletown, Upper Dublin, and New Hope-Solebury. With sewage seen overflowing from manholes on numerous occasions, and operation and maintenance violations recorded under its state-issued permits, the authority was accused of violations of the federal Clean Water Act and Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law by the …