Near Sewage Plant Blast in West Harlem
Sewage fireball threat in blackout
A sewage treatment plant in Harlem nearly exploded into a "catastrophic"
fireball during the 2003 blackout - a disaster only averted by a city worker
armed with an old broomstick, new records show.
FULL STORY http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-echo/story/389932p-330641c.html
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The North River Sewage Plant on the Hudson between 137 and 145 Sts in West Harlem has been a bit of an on-going disaster ever since it was mislocated there rather than further down the West Side where proper sewage treatment could have been instituted. An 'innovative' vertical system of treatment tanks there squeezed in to the inadequate space available do not work, resulting in the dumping of only partially screened sewage in the best of times and nearly full sewage when heavy rains flood storm drains connected with the sewage system overwhelming its capacity to strain out anything but large chunks of sewage. The Hudson River in no place to fish, despite the lack of prohibitions of same there.
After the plant was first completed the stench from it with the prevailing winds from the west made life for residents to the east almost unbearable. Then it was enclosed to prevent escaping ugly vapors -- exposing employees there all the more to hazardous unhealthy conditions.
Now we learn that a massive explosion from methane gas build up was barely averted during the 2003 black out? One wonders what next. It has a nice park on top as a sop to endangered nearby residents. Most who use it bus in from the Bronx.
And so it goes near where Columbia hopes to build its new Manhattanville campus -- with its extra sewage load burdens. Ed Kent
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to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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A sewage treatment plant in Harlem nearly exploded into a "catastrophic"
fireball during the 2003 blackout - a disaster only averted by a city worker
armed with an old broomstick, new records show.
FULL STORY http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-echo/story/389932p-330641c.html
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The North River Sewage Plant on the Hudson between 137 and 145 Sts in West Harlem has been a bit of an on-going disaster ever since it was mislocated there rather than further down the West Side where proper sewage treatment could have been instituted. An 'innovative' vertical system of treatment tanks there squeezed in to the inadequate space available do not work, resulting in the dumping of only partially screened sewage in the best of times and nearly full sewage when heavy rains flood storm drains connected with the sewage system overwhelming its capacity to strain out anything but large chunks of sewage. The Hudson River in no place to fish, despite the lack of prohibitions of same there.
After the plant was first completed the stench from it with the prevailing winds from the west made life for residents to the east almost unbearable. Then it was enclosed to prevent escaping ugly vapors -- exposing employees there all the more to hazardous unhealthy conditions.
Now we learn that a massive explosion from methane gas build up was barely averted during the 2003 black out? One wonders what next. It has a nice park on top as a sop to endangered nearby residents. Most who use it bus in from the Bronx.
And so it goes near where Columbia hopes to build its new Manhattanville campus -- with its extra sewage load burdens. Ed Kent
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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