1. Describe the evolution of NYC's sewage system. What were some of the challenges that the city faced in its development of a waste system?What are some challenges that still remain?
The sewage treatment of NYC changed. Some of the ways it has changed is that before there was no sewage system. People back then would dump their bathroom waste in the ground and then that would affect all of the water inside the ground. Then the city saw that the people there were getting diseases,like AWD(Acute Water Diareah) so they started to build a new filtration system. It has developed and changed a lot today that we have ways to filter and clean our water underground and we have clean water that is easily accessible to us.
As New York City started to make a waste removal system it had faced some problems. Also the city noticed that the people in the city were getting diseases, such as cholera (a terrible disease that causes diarrhea and killed thousands of people), so they started to build new filtration systems.
2. What positive impacts does the NYC sanitation system have on the bodies of water surrounding the city?What threats does the sanitation system pose to the surroudding water?
New York City's sanitation system is a system that lets's us have clean water. This is very good for us but not the the bodies of water that is around us. There is a positive and a negative that NYC's sanitation system has on the different bodies of water that is around us. One of the positive impacts that our sanitation system has on the different bodies of water around us, is that we care so much about having nice or not dirty drinking water that we will make sure that there is nothing in the water that could possible get to us. As years and years past we have noticed that some of the marine animals, that were not seen in the rivers for a period of time, have come back. Some of these animals are the Hawksbill turtle, Striped bass, Bluefish, and American shad.
3. In clear steps with many details, describe the life of your poop after you flush.
Everyone goes to the bathroom and everyone flushes the toilet. Even though there is so much, we have to do something about it. The feces can not just sit there, in fact every time you flush your toilet your feces is having a great adventure to a wierd place. Every time that you flush your toilet your poop is carried down a drain to a pipe called the lateral. Then once in lateral your poop is carried to the submain, which then goes to the "interceptor", then it goes to the treatment plant.At the treatment plant your poop will go through many steps. First it will pass through bars. Then the poop is divided, with other water and compounds. Then it goes to another container, where air is added so that further organic remains can be destroyed. In the next tank the water is chlorinated and then sent to an oxygen free tank at 95 degrees to make sure that all organic materials are gone.
If you do not live in the city and live in the other boroughs, then you might have a sort ofdifferent/ private sewage treatment plan.