Raw Sewage Spilled into N. Y. Waterway
About 20 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the waters off Staten Island on Tuesday after a power failure at a sewage treatment plant, officials said.
Sewage became backed up when power to the Port Richmond Pollution Control Plant failed Monday afternoon, and millions of gallons of untreated waste went into Kill Van Kull, the narrow waterway between Bayonne, N. J., and Staten Island.
Public health officials said they feared that currents in New York Harbor would carry the waste across the south shore of Staten Island to Brooklyn beaches that extend east from Coney Island.
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