Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Plant Fails, Sewage Dumped Into Rivers
From Times staff and Wire reports
A circuit breaker failed in New York City’s second-largest sewage treatment plant, releasing at least 140 million gallons of untreated waste water into the Harlem, Hudson and East rivers. Officials did not expect any public health problems due to the shutdown of the Wards Island plant, with most of the contamination being flushed toward the Atlantic Ocean.
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