Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n…<\/p>\n
Several years ago, city officials estimated that it would cost at least $58 billion to prevent all overflows. \u201cEven an expenditure of that magnitude would not result in every part of a river or bay surrounding the city achieving water quality that is suitable for swimming,\u201d the department wrote. \u201cIt would, however, increase the average N.Y.C. water and sewer bill by 80 percent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New York Times has a great article today on the state of the NYC sewage system.\u00a0 Many of the problems discussed are similar to what the greater Boston area faces .\u00a0 These include decrepit infrastructure and rainwater being routed into the sewage system instead of absorbed into the ground. See the CRWA’s Blue Cities page on rainwater reclamation and the CRWA’s sewer separation page for information on ongoing projects to address these chronic problems. This is a great article, please take the time to read it.\u00a0 The full article is available here. Some interesting excerpts: In the last three years alone, more than 9,400 of the nation\u2019s 25,000 sewage systems \u2014 including those in major cities \u2014 have reported violating the law by dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous materials into rivers and lakes and elsewhere, according to data from state environmental agencies and the Environmental Protection Agency. … Several years ago, city officials estimated that it would cost at least $58 billion to prevent all overflows. \u201cEven an expenditure of that magnitude would not result in every part of a river or bay surrounding the city achieving water quality that is suitable for swimming,\u201d the department wrote. \u201cIt would, however, increase the average N.Y.C. water and sewer bill by 80 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}