Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control-Brooklyn, N.Y.
A $680 million phase of the massive, 13-year expansion of the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn was completed in February, increasing the plant capacity by 50 percent and improved wastewater treatment processing.
Newtown Creek is the largest of New York City’s 14 wastewater treatment plants serving over 1 million residents. Constructed in 1967, the plant was designed to treat 310 million gallons per day (mgd). The expansion, begun in 1998, will expand plant capacity to 700 mgd and bring Newtown Creek into com-pliance with the Federal Clean Water Act.