Not so hidden are some of the fishing holes described in the book, including power-plant outflows, Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, and the Potomac River and C&O Canal in Washington.
A guy I know had a friend who once went diving inside the San Onofre nuclear power plant's outflow pipe, and in there, he said, he found a colony of enormous lobsters.
The diversion proposed for New Castle's waste would be smaller, adding under a half-million gallons of treated effluent to the Yonkers plant's current outflow of approximately 83 million gallons per day.
In developing the tool, the natural groundwater recharge was evaluated through the application of a soil water balance equation, and defined as the difference between the inflows (rainfall, irrigation) and the outflows (plant evapotranspiration, surface run-off).
The plant's average outflows of 28 million gallons of treated water per day have been halted at least 60 times over the last two years, according to Regional Water Quality Control Board records.
Federal authorities later determined that the water treatment plant had halted its outflows earlier that day.
Pumped storage is used if the tidal outflow through the plant falls below peak power demands.
A second finding concerned the destruction of a wastewater plant, leading to an enormous outflow of raw sewage.
The measurements showed the absorbed nitrogen amount in plant was less than the outflow nitrogen amount from nutrient solution.
