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Map Of The Day: Where Does Your Flush Go?

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It's the question that's baffled every four-year-old in America. Where does the water go when you flush the toilet? Now, thanks to this map from the environmental health organization Habitat Map, you can find out the answer. The map breaks down the city into color-coded "sewagesheds," allowing New Yorkers can figure out if their toilets contribute to the stench that has long plagued sections of Brooklyn near the Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant, or if heavy rains cause their flushes to become a part of the 586 million gallons of raw sewage poured into Newtown Creek annually, or the 1.43 billion gallons dumped into the waters off of Astoria every year. It's also the perfect complement to this map of New York City public toilets.

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  • valeriob

    @ceraunograph

    hey douchebag- did you bother clicking the link? It's pretty comprehensive; it includes the shithole you live in somewhere, I'm sure.

    The picture above is cropped for reference, big deal.

  • NannyState

    Why New Jersey of course: those turds are just like little homing pidgeons.

  • Ishtar

    Sorry, Owls Head. I'll go easy on the fiber.

  • Kojak

    And why the hell does the Brooklyn waterfront/Red Hook area get their own treatment plant. They act like their shit don't stink.

  • Dear gothamist, why is it that every time you show one of these coded city maps, you always show only lower manhattan and northern brooklyn. Do you think nobody lives in queens or above 23rd? What's your bias?

  • Kojak

    Come on. That's been their focus since day one. 99% of readers have known that.

  • valeriob

    :Insert Staten Island joke here:

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