10/28/2026
As we often talk about water quality and CSOs here on campus, it was a treat to visit Newtown Creek Water Treatment Plant - one of the 14 water treatment plants in NYC. New facts learned during this field trip:
🚰New York City has been monitoring water quality since the New York Harbor Survey was established in 1909 - that’s a lot of data!
🚰 Food waste is added to the digester eggs as a bioslurry to co-digest with the organic material in wastewater at Newtown Creek; some of the biogas created through this process is cleaned and used to power about 6,000 homes in Brooklyn
Thanks to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for hosting a highly informative professional development workshop!