{"id":1860,"date":"2006-12-06T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/dont_dump_in_on_or_upstream_from_the_bronx.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:23:36","slug":"dont_dump_in_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/dont_dump_in_or.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Dump In, On Or Upstream From The Bronx!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t these towns have water treatment systems? Septic tanks? Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/477411p-401663c.html\">there&#8217;s little need for such technology when you can just dump shit into the Bronx River<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Four Westchester municipalities &#8212; Scarsdale, White Plains, Mount Vernon and Greenburgh &#8212; agreed to stop discharging sewage into the Bronx River by May 1, 2007, under a Nov. 28 agreement reached with the attorney general and the state Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Discharging untreated sewage is already against state law, but the prohibition lacked teeth before Spitzer&#8217;s office began testing water samples along the river and identifying which towns were responsible for violations. The towns have agreed to improve their storm-water systems and will pay fines for future violations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will help make the river safe and swimmable for those of us downstream,&#8221; said Dart Westphal, chairman of the Bronx River Alliance, which oversees the 8-mile stretch of the river from the Westchester County line to where it empties into the East River.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, don&#8217;t go overboard there . . .<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/bronx\/bronxriver\/index.htm\">Bronx River<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t these towns have water treatment systems? Septic tanks? Of course, there&#8217;s little need for such technology when you can just dump shit into the Bronx River: Four Westchester municipalities &#8212; Scarsdale, White Plains, Mount Vernon and Greenburgh &#8212; agreed to stop discharging sewage into the Bronx River by May 1, 2007, under a Nov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}