Morning Bike ride along Greenpoint Newtown Creek Sewage Plant

Just on the other side of Newtown Creek from LIC, lies the Greenpoint Eggs, a major water pollution and sewage pollution treatment plant in NYC--one of 14. This morning I discovered the nature walk--and rode my bike along it dispite the lingering smell of sewage. It's another Air Pollution Alert Day in hot NYC.

Here's a brief description from the NYC DEP website...they just lit the towers using a French Light design firm...

"The Newtown Creek plant is the largest of New York City's 14 wastewater treatment plants. The plant serves approximately 1 million residents in a drainage area of more than 15,000 acres (25 square miles). The plant began operation in 1967 and currently treats 18% of the City's wastewater with a capacity of 310 million gallons per day (mgd) during dry weather. Upgrade work began in 1998 and will eventually raise plant capacity to 700 mgd during wet weather storms. The upgraded plant will serve a projected population of 1.33 million residents within the relevant drainage area by 2045.

Last September, DEP opened the Waterfront Nature Walk at the Newtown Creek plant, affording the public their first waterfront access to Newtown Creek in decades and advancing Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC goals, ensuring that the public has broader access to the waterfront and increasing water quality throughout the City's waterways. The Nature Walk was designed by renowned environmental sculptor George Trakas through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program in conjunction with DEP's ongoing upgrade of the plant. The quarter-mile nature walk offers stunning views of the City and of the nearby industrial landscape, as well as many unique architectural features, plantings and construction techniques that were designed by Trakas to evoke the rich, continually evolving environmental, industrial and cultural histories of the local area." (and the smell)

I also discovered the TWC Brooklyn dispatch center--a huge facility with lots of techs and repairmen and installers getting ready for a busy day. Media add ons! HD, Digital Phone, DVR's etc!

View towards Manhattan from Pulaski Br

ESB View from Sewage Plant Bike Path