Wastewater treatment

The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission wanted to build a back-up power generator on site to prepare for future storms.

Halloween enthusiasts can experience manufactured horrors for a lot of money and minimal terror, or real, authentic horror for free within the fetid walls of the digester eggs at Newtown Creek's Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Good news: The "untreated" poop has stopped flowing into the Hudson. Bad news: The rivers and some beaches aren't really great for water activities.

Apparently New Yorkers make so much waste that the city's Department of