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Pumping Station at 13th Street and Avenue D, from where it is sent under the East River to the plant. Normal influx is 170 million US gallons (450 million L; 100 million imp gal) a day, which increases to 300 million US gallons (450 million L; 100 million imp gal) during wet weather. When a significant overflow occurred during the New York City blackout of 1977, and 828 million US gallons (3.134 billion L; 689 million imp gal) of raw sewage spilled into the East River), the federal government ordered in 1995 that the city build back-up facilities. Despite this, the
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The plant handles a large portion of the drainage from the East Side of
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The plant was originally constructed in 1967. The plant's unusual public amenities, which include a visitors' center with a manmade waterfall, a nature walk along the
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produced 145 million US gallons (550 million L; 121 million imp gal) of raw sewage spilled. In 1998, the city started its program to expand the facility. Construction was completed in 2014, and the plant remained opened throughout the renovation process. The plant can now handle 310 million gallons
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to transform the sewage plant sludge byproduct into a form which can be used as fertilizer. The plant gives monthly public tours of the digester eggs, for which reservations are required. The
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on average, discharging approximately 500 million gallons of raw sewage directly into New York Harbor. CSOs are the single largest impairment to the quality of New York City's waters.
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