We spend two to three hundred million dollars in capital improvements for sewers from our capital spending plan. A lot went into the sewers in Southeast Queens over the last decade and there are plans for more work to be done. We are doing a lot to alleviate the flooding, but we have to do more.
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It has never been a question that this area should be served by sanitary sewers but as the 1994 Act 537 plan approved by the DEP states this should happen when funding is available. We as supervisors have a desire to resolve the issues in a way that is most beneficial and cost effective.
The first thing we have to do is make sure we have good sanitation, which right now for many areas in the Gulf region we have none no running water, no sewers,
Those of us who wanted to test the boundaries of what a superhero comic book could do, unfortunately broke those boundaries and the results have not all been very good. We pushed against the old walls, and they fell-but nothing much has been built to replace them. And now the roof is leaking and the sewer's backing up.
Certainly infrastructure can cover our streets and, you know, our sewers, our water. There's lots of different places for this money to go. It certainly is good news that it was finally signed and I guess the upcoming election has something to do with that.
My son is a U.S. Marine, an Iraqi veteran, and my hero. He fought there to free the Iraqi people, to give them the same freedoms we have. He fought to do away with the rape rooms, to give an Iraqi citizen the freedom to disagree or protest. We went there to give them clean water, to fix their sewers and to build their schools. We went there to give these people a chance at a better quality of life. We need to stay there until the job is done or they ask us to leave. We are in Iraq because we need to be and because it is the right thing to do.
I learned probably more about water and sewers than I care to know, but I learned a lot and I enjoyed it a lot.
As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
Cities were monitoring more and going into shock over what pollution had been ignored for years if not decades. Now we have spent hundreds of millions for new sewers and storm outflow controls and things are dramatically better than they were five years ago.
When you have an inordinate amount of rain, you don't have any choice - the water can only flow off so far. You don't have the capacity. The sewers, once they get overflowed and overwhelmed, there is nothing you can do about it except try to keep it open to the best of your ability.
The people down there voted to connect to sewers, 21-10. These are the last two streets in Milford before the West Haven line and a section of New Haven Avenue would also be included.
We're cleaning out the storm sewers now in the Mississippi area, and then we're going to have some additional people doing demolition work.
We're basically doing a feature film every week. This is big stuff. We blew up a pizza kid, robbed a moving train, went down into the sewers, robbed a bank, did a chase scene with helicopters over downtown L. A.--and that's just in the pilot.
A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.