Adam Johnston, a coordinator for Alabama Rivers Alliance, said thousands of gallons of under-treated and sometimes raw sewage flows into local streams each week, because the residential water treatment plant is overburdened by a Catfish processing plant and a private prison.
Railroads are so overburdened that power plants in southern China are having trouble getting coal from the north.
For example, he said, the county should re-examine which areas are overburdened with sewage plants, incinerators and waste transfer stations.
The most vulnerable populations -- children, newborns, pregnant women, communities that are already overburdened by chemical plants and waste sites with toxic contamination, and other at-risk populations -- must be protected.
Also, the turret shop at Nikolaev proved to be too poorly equipped to assemble the 406 mm mountings and the propeller shafts had to be ordered in 1940 from Germany and the Netherlands as the domestic plants were already overburdened with orders.
Now some groups are rethinking the venerable technology of the flush toilet, particularly for regions that lack such systems or for places where waste water treatment plants, many of them aging, are overburdened by the demands of fast-growing populations.
Mr. Espaillat said the redevelopment would overburden the sewage treatment plant in his neighborhood, predicting that overflows would be dumped into the Hudson River.
Freddie Lopes, 35, who has worked at the plant 12 years, said Toyota management was unsympathetic to workers' complaints that they were overburdened.
Our taxpayers are overburdened.
The rich aren't overburdened".
