Natalia Trotsay That's right, but when the water goes out in the river, it just has to evaporate, and once it rains, the water will come down and go through the soil, and make clean water. That process takes about 50 years. But it is a cycle that happens constantly:)
This is the infrastructure that makes big cities like NYC possible and prevents things like the plague from happening and wiping out the population. Engineers, construction workers, and maintenance personnel make this happen. Thank you!
"The plant offers monthly tours including one on Valentine's Day." Hey honey, let's go to the sewage treatment plant. Happy Valentine's Day! *gets dumped*
London doesn't smell anymore... anywhere - New York still does, however (as of 2016/2017). And the water quality here is very high, i.e. we can drink tap water without fearing that we may be drinking poison. Water quality reports with an extensive analysis of all that's present in the source, as per the local towns provider, are publicly available too
Thanks for the presentation. It was very well done, and shows the dedication necessary to preserve a civilized lifestyle, without drowning in our own waste.
One of the key indicator of a well developed nation infrastructures is how advance in the way they treat their solid waste and sewer discharge without polluting their major cities and waterways. US is a head of other developed countries.
I did some consulting work for Southerly waste water treatment plant where the sludge is dryed and burned....and when I asked one of the stationary engineers what happens when this plant has to shutdown, he replied: "Hey man, that shit never stops coming!"
We sat out on Sandy Hook one fine day and watched barge after barge go out loaded and come back empty. I asked my guide where the refuse went and he said he didn't know...Now I know!
@@rachelledoninetch9560 sludge isnt used as cover. The landfill uses trash to cover the sludge then at the end of the day use dirt to cover the sludgey trash mixture
Diapers and wipes are bad news. I'm in Philippines right now and everything is smaller, you only get straws if you have those drinks with tapioca, and your choice of a small brown bag or buy a reusable. Trash here is unreal and sewers are open vented, run off in the streets flushes so much solid trash into the system But I don't know where it goes
@@DrFillyBlunt yeah but I think his point is humans are too stupid to do that and the only way to solve it for good is to make them biodegradable, because you'll always have one who says 'ah it's just one wipe'
The recycling of the sludge into fertilizer is now a huge money maker. When I was working in landscape maintenance in Southern California, one of the fertilizers that people requested most was Milorganite, made from Milwaukee, Wis. sewage sludge. It was great for lawns, until the California drought caused people to have us tear out all of their grass and plant xeriscape gardens. Tilled into flower beds and around shrubs, it is still popular and many cities sell their sludge for reprocessing. Because of the potential for toxic heavy metals in the sewage, it is not good for agricultural fertilizer. The wastewater treatment personnel and those who engineer these systems are some really dedicated people who do an incredible job. All of them should be thanked.
These people are heros they work hard for our environment and health because unfortunately we as humans bring waste and with that comes responsibility to our planet.
Code words for sewerage treatment plant workers: Brown Trout = a large turd Coney Island White Fish = Maxi pad Beach Whistle = partially inflated rubber
All solids are removed from the water and anything remaining has had contact with sodium hypochorite and then that's stripped with sodium bisuflite . It's clean water. Many parts of the world would then send this same water through a few more steps and turn it into drinking water. Here in fla we reuse it for irrigation water .
@@festivebear9946 Same could be said about fluoride. Many municipalities use chlorine to disinfect their water, though I'm sure fluoride is just as common. Edit: also, pools generally contain much more chlorine than drinking water.
Treated water still can carry pathogenic micro-organisms. This reduces the chance of disease in large populous areas and down stream users. What he didn't mention in that they remove the chlorine/bleach in the final step. Usually with sodium metabisulfate so that it doesn't have a negative effect on the biology of the receiving waters.
So grateful that there are people willing to do this job in my benefit. That being said I was cringing at the fact that they’re not wearing respiratory masks or gloves😷🤢
Yeah, gloves are a must for me. You often have to use thin gloves to be able to work on stuff, which tend to break pretty easily. To say the least, you scrub and scrub after that. As far as respirators, I've never known any wastewater employee to use them. If anything, I get less sick than the rest of my family. Maybe I have a more well built immune system because of it.😂
I really wonder what the sewage system was like in the 30s and 40s in the City. Without modern technology the sewage tunnels probably leaked and broke a few times. And the smell must've been terrible.
andre jacques I never said you would die from eating chemicals that were used on fertilizers. However if you fertilise with shit, eat it again shit it again and eat it again, this cycle over time evolves bad bacterias and it's becoming a concern
The plant at Rockaway always smells! And it has a public school right next to it. And another school 500ft away. I'm choking every time I'm passing it! Poor kids...
So what happens to all of the flushed baggies of drugs after the filter catches it? Does it get destroyed alongside the rest of the solid waste you mentioned?
Ever been in one of those candle shops or "body soap" places with the overpowering and nauseating smell of every kind of shitty lilac in the world? You hang out in those for a few minutes and the ridiculous smell of patchouli and sapphire mermaid breeze or whatever it is goes away. Your nose gets used to it.
In 1946, I was watching guys fishing in the river, right by the Grant monument. There was a condom in the river about every three feet of separation. That sewage was no even screened for solid matter. Very sad.
All water is waste water that has been treated sweetheart. Literally every molecule of water that exists on Earth today has been passed through the bodies of thousands of people. When you drink an 8oz glass of water, at least some of those H2O molecules passed through Shakespeare himself. the only pure source of water untouched by humans would be from a spring that has never been tapped.
It is nice to see the whole system together, but the thing is that instead of discharging that treated water to a river, reuse options should be considered. I mean this should be the trend to follow for all wastewater treatment plants
Looks like The final step is the bottling of the water process for Nestle directly as it leaves the plant, where it returns later, its the circle of life.
I always thought it went to some of the Jersey Shore beaches. Some of them do have garbage in the sand. I used to do metal detecting on those beaches and I was shocked at the amount of garbage I would find...I stopped doing the metal detecting after that experience.
