[Shop-talk] plumping question

[Steven Trovato]

This is interesting, because New York City's system is still 
combined.  A heavy rain routinely overloads the system and discharges 
raw sewage into the environment.

http://riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/pollution/the_facts/986

And in nearby Hoboken, the city has tomatoes sprouting all over, 
allegedly from seeds in sewage that flooded the area.

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2007/10/attack_of_the_killer_tomatoes.html
http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2007/10/crappy_tomato_plants_growing_b.html

I don't know if it's true, but it makes an amusing story.

At 10:11 AM 10/30/2007, pethier at comcast.net wrote:
>We used to have combined sewers here, but a Federal Court Order 
>caused us to separate the entire system a few decades ago.