From 2000 to 2002, according to government records, the plant petitioned the Department of Environmental Conservation and the city's Department of Sanitation for permission to increase its capacity for the management of putrescible solid waste more than threefold, to 1,200 cubic yards (600 tons) per day from 355 cubic yards (177.5 tons) per day.
Its current permit allows for a daily capacity of 600 tons per day of solid waste and 266 tons per day of construction and demolition debris.
Modern sinter plants are capable of producing up to 25,000 tons per day.
Airborne measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas from the fumaroles were started on May 13, and the measurements showed the SO2 emissions increasing from 500 metric tons per day to more than 5,000 tons per day by May 28.
The output of each retort was about eight tons per day, and a typical plant operated about 20 retorts.
The total weight of food consumed by a large penguin colony is prodigious, often exceeding several tons per day.
The pressure test, which was to begin July 1, was to have cut smog-causing auto emissions by six tons per day.
The Newtown Creek station would handle the 1,000 tons per day of Queens garbage that is now shipped to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Before Glen Canyon Dam was built, the sediments carried by the Colorado River were measured at an average of 500,000 tons per day.
They may hold as much as 1,000 tons of glass and produce as much as 50 to 500 tons per day.
