On March 24, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered the Consent Decree (CD) signed by the United States, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), and the Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority (?BCWSA?), settling violations of the federal Clean Water Act and Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law. The CD resolves violations primarily consisting of sanitary sewer overflows and operation and maintenance violations under its state-issued permits. Under the CD, BCWSA will pay a $450,000 penalty, split equally between the U.S. and the State, and will evaluate and upgrade its sewer systems, adopting extensive measures to assure compliance with the CWA and the Clean Streams Act. BCWSA owns and operates hundreds of miles of sewer pipes and associated treatment plants, and wastewater collection and conveyance systems, largely situated in Bucks County. The injunctive relief aims to remedy the ongoing sanitary sewer overflows, including more than 100 that have occurred in Plumstead Township alone since 2014, as well as in Bensalem, Richland, Doylestown Borough, Middletown, Upper Dublin, and New Hope-Solebury. As part of its injunctive relief measures, BCWSA will undertake a variety of activities including monitoring water flow; modelling the collection system; conducting inflow and infiltration evaluations; identifying and remedying hydraulic capacity limitations; addressing illegal sewer connections; and improv