Gothamist: Sewage And Other Environment Issues For A New Jets Stadium

Jack

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:44:01 -0500

It might be a good idea for the writer to actually read the "boring, hefty tome" of the EIS because she (and the NYTimes) got it wrong. Look in Chapter 16, on page 16-15 of the EIS, there's a handy little table which shows the stadium (multi use facility) generates 425,000 gallons per day (when its in operation) versus the total of 7,336,600 gallons per day in the projected development. So why does the stadium get the blame? Because of lazy reporting and an ill-placed bias against a project that will bring jobs and economic development to the city.

mrp

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:29:36 -0500

This is a late comment, but: While the article does point out many of the issues, for better or worse, of the proposed development, a few things should be pointed out: (1) the North River plant in question is running at approximately 40 mgd less than its maximum dry-weather capacity, so an average daily increase of 7 or 8 mgd shouldn't effect things; and (2) the City's treatment plants are actually designed to discharge into the surrounding waters during wet-weather events (millions of gallons of extra flow is contained in an interceptor, and when that overflows the additional excess is discharged into the water bodies surrounding the City), so that really isn't unusual news � more like an unpleasant fact that never really gets talked about, i.e., something similar probably happened when it rained last Friday. Interesting fact: the City is spending billions right now to develop enormous holding tanks to reduce such sewer overflows at a number of its treatment plants.

josie

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:01:33 -0500

I hope this project comes through... the bashing is silly. its good for the city, jobs and its not coming out of the city budget

drew

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:33:20 -0500

Is there going to be some sort of divine payoff included in the costs in order to provide the heavenly sunlight that shines only on the new architecture?

Hattie

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:09:42 -0500

This project stinks in many ways! We need to improve the quality of life, not just pack zillions of more megastructures into Manhattan.