Another Sewage Spill

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Just heard on the news that we have another sewage spill into the Hudson. It is coming from Ossining Creek into the Hudson. The report claimed they are dumping chlorine on it to break it up and advising not to go into the water in Westchester or Rockland. Just beautiful.
 
Oh crap not again. Well now I understand what you were talking about. I will be away until the end of the weekend weather permitting if not I will return on Saturday, next week I'm not around so I hope they can clean this up within two weeks. This really sucks from now on I dumping my head at my slip, not.
 
http://www.riverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/June-July_2011-WQ_Report_Final_sm.pdf
 
OSSINING — Health Department officials in Westchester and Rockland counties issued a blanket warning Thursday telling people to avoid direct contact with the Hudson River after a sewer main break in the village.

The warning comes only three weeks after a massive sewage spill out of New York City restricted the use of the Hudson for several days.

Westchester's Croton Point Park Beach and the private Philipse Manor Beach Club's beach were closed Thursday. Officials on both sides of the river advised those using the Hudson for recreation — such as fishing, kayaking and boating — to avoid direct contact with the water.

Repairs on the pipe are expected to be finished some time today.

Ossining Mayor Bill Hanauer said a roughly 4-foot-diameter tree fell into a 40- to 60-foot ravine surrounding Killbrook Creek and ruptured a 36-inch metal sewer main by the water's edge.
The incident occurred just across from Ossining Steamer Company No. 1 on Central Avenue, but an exact time of when the tree fell was unknown.
Sewage is escaping the pipe at a rate of 1.5 million gallons per day, making the creek water turbid and gray.

http://www.lohud.com/article/201108...er-warning?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
 
This sucks...the broken pipe on top of the Riverkeeper report. If you follow the link from Dan above to the Riverkeeper site, you get the readings from exact sites.
http://www.riverkeeper.org/water-quality/locations/
Stony Point Midchannel and Haverstraw Midchannel are good. Croton Point Beach and Haverstraw Beach were recently bad once, after the 5/17 big rain storm, but good otherwise. Tarrytown Marina not too good. Near West Point 3 of 21 samples were bad.
 
The spill has just been stopped. Obviously Croton Point is closed for swimming. The estimate now is through Monday. Seems too quick for my liking. Think i'll give it a little longer.
 
Folks in populous areas should start to get used to this. IMHO. Do I like it? NO! I just don't see the emphasis on cleaning up sewage that is required to contain it.
There are too many people in the area for one river, and too many old municipalities that cannot afford to clean up their act.
 
Im not sure its safe yet. Was just on the county Site and the advisory is still there. If they fixed it Sunday they may not have passing results yet. Its a 2 day test that they have to run. Im sure Sundays samples would have failed which would have come back yesterday. I would suspect that they wont get good results till Today or Tomorrow. I would think it will be good by the weekend. But then the rain does not help with the runoff from the shore line.
 
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