Here's where New York City's sewage really goes
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- New York City is home to 8.4 million waste-producing people; that's a lot of toilets, drains, and sewers. It takes 14 wastewater treatment facilities scattered throughout the five boroughs to clean up all of our dirty water.
We visited the largest facility, the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to see how the water is treated. It's a dirty job that surprisingly smells great.
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How about a big THANK YOU to all of the guys who work diligently, each and every day, to give us the clean water that we take for granted!
Reed Rothchild agreed!
But they just said its not clean
Natalia Trotsay That's right, but when the water goes out in the river, it just has to evaporate, and once it rains, the water will come down and go through the soil, and make clean water.
That process takes about 50 years. But it is a cycle that happens constantly:)
They are getting paid for it... Only clocks work for free.
Amen
Perfect Valentine's gift: a tour of a sewage plant.
How very romantic!
Well they do say the sign of a keeper is whether she can do her makeup in the bathroom while you poop.
Your profile pic matches this comment. XD
Today I realized, my shit is treated better than me.. 🤣
ya boy
What's going on?
Lol
And it always will be...
Ray S lol
This is the infrastructure that makes big cities like NYC possible and prevents things like the plague from happening and wiping out the population. Engineers, construction workers, and maintenance personnel make this happen. Thank you!
Too bad fauci couldn’t prevent funding a lab in china that created the current plague
They should rename the plant:
Sewage
Handling &
Industrial
Treatment
Anyone got better acronyms? This could be fun!
deus ex how does this not have more likes?
What’s that computer system for? The one with the blue face for an interface.
deus ex You better watch you mouth bud, or the NSF will send you back to the people, in a body bag.
Oh my goodness, it took me a second to get that.
Shitty idea
"The plant offers monthly tours including one on Valentine's Day."
Hey honey, let's go to the sewage treatment plant. Happy Valentine's Day!
*gets dumped*
Quite fascinating
😂😂
Punny
I always enjoy a little action on v day and it would put me in the mood.
@@zjones9876 🤫🤫🤫🐒
Of all the things I could watch during my lunch break, I chose to watch this🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Mmmmm sewage shit, my favorite food
atleast you aren't drinking tap water
HL Watts
watch my ballistic missiles instead
🚀
Good to know where your lunch eventually goes!
A big thank you to everyone who put that whole system together.
and i thought my job was shit
Lol
😂
Literally
litterially
jsmetalcore but good pay shit
WOMEN!!! Stop throwing your pads and tampons in the toilet!
Sir, that was rather sexist of you... LOL
These Is Where Women Should Work {SJWS ONLY STRICTLY} !!!
MEN! stop throwing your condoms in the toilet!
Wamen
@@greekgod5193 we can say the same about you
I think that’s so impressive. It’s easy to take for granted all the services that cities perform and the people who make those systems work. I ❤️ NY!
I visited Manhattan 2 years ago. My first question was: "jeez, where does all the shit go?" Now I know. Very informative.
Yeah, it goes into the East River.
Thanks Business Insider! Now I know where to take my girlfriend to on Valentine's Day
Forbidden Temptations best bro
John Escalona 💩💩😁😁
Now if they could fix the subway system I'd take my vacation there every year, I just luv NYC
Calvin Newnam there’s nothing wrong with regular subway system
I hope you mean *alive* ...
Could anyone else smell the shit through the screen
😂😂😂 nice one..
poohead970 Lol
poohead970 nigga that's your breath.😧😷☠
I can already smell it ;).
I work in sewers. You have no clue how bad the smell can be!! You get use to it. I hardly smell it anymore
I work in a Waste Water 💩💦 and I Love my job. Glad people appreciate me. Someone has to do it.
Me too. Damn. I hope I don’t ever have to do that LOL
Thank you 🙏
Are you into scat?
@@heybudi you mean like singing?
@@daedaetinez6406 I'm joking btw🤣🤣
I’d take a tour of this place over a modern art museum any day
Where are the teenage mutant ninja turtles?
They got flushed down. They're all dead.
There are all decompose
didn't you hear? They washed up on the filter bars.
Jake Long for real. Shits not how it was in the 90's those ninjas have been outclassed by modern technology. RIP.
Grell Sutcliff they all died. It was too toxic.
When are we going to start making ALL baby wipes biodegradable??
Diapers and wipes are bad news. I'm in Philippines right now and everything is smaller, you only get straws if you have those drinks with tapioca, and your choice of a small brown bag or buy a reusable. Trash here is unreal and sewers are open vented, run off in the streets flushes so much solid trash into the system
But I don't know where it goes
There are some now available
it would be cheaper just to throw them in the trash like a decent human being instead of bogging down treatment facilities with them.
@@DrFillyBlunt The trash is not supposed to have shit in it.
@@DrFillyBlunt yeah but I think his point is humans are too stupid to do that and the only way to solve it for good is to make them biodegradable, because you'll always have one who says 'ah it's just one wipe'
Thank you to all the people who risk their life to keep us and our cities safe and well. Thank you from heart💓
Me: a gun?
Me: in new york?
Also me: only one?
Paul Middleton Funny!!
Paul Middleton it’s not the 1930’s calm down. You watch too many mafia movies. Doubt u from NY. South heights baby!
Came here after reading about the Great Stink of London.
New Yorkers don't know how good they have it.
Thank you for all the great work you do.
London doesn't smell anymore... anywhere - New York still does, however (as of 2016/2017). And the water quality here is very high, i.e. we can drink tap water without fearing that we may be drinking poison. Water quality reports with an extensive analysis of all that's present in the source, as per the local towns provider, are publicly available too
"Into the east river"
Where would it else go?
MaskSo James Yeah chlorinating a river is so good for the enviromment
Lord Escanor the bleach is removed
MaskSo James did you see the water? Unless my eyes fool me shit doesn’t look clean.
The recycling of the sludge into fertilizer is now a huge money maker. When I was working in landscape maintenance in Southern California, one of the fertilizers that people requested most was Milorganite, made from Milwaukee, Wis. sewage sludge. It was great for lawns, until the California drought caused people to have us tear out all of their grass and plant xeriscape gardens. Tilled into flower beds and around shrubs, it is still popular and many cities sell their sludge for reprocessing. Because of the potential for toxic heavy metals in the sewage, it is not good for agricultural fertilizer. The wastewater treatment personnel and those who engineer these systems are some really dedicated people who do an incredible job. All of them should be thanked.
Much respect to those that work in places like this I would go nowhere near it..
What do they do with the dollar bills?
Spend em? Shitty money lol
You would have to launder it it's pretty *dirty* money.
You take it to the Mint of course... When they aren't busy with mint chocolate.
Jake Penny II They spend it on hookers
Burn
Recycle ♻️ for toilet 🚽 paper 🧻
Well I'm not going to a river
Rivers by big cities are fucking vile. I used to go to city parks on the Chattahoochee in and around Atlanta, and they literally smelled like shit.
DubDrt1 1 so does that count as every water on earth? dumbass
Well I think you did.
MrBook I went tubing in Helen and it seemed clean but my clothes smelled like shit after lol
DubDrt1 1 as a kid I swam in the East river!
What does DEP stand for? Department of Everyone’s Poop?
Department of Environmental Protection
Isn't that supposed to be EPA. Environmental Protection Agency
@@brianbreezy8382 I guess us people in new york like our departments. We have the DEP, NYCDOE, DOJ, DOA, DOH, etc
Jakob Grossman I was just kidding. Thank you nevertheless!
@@brianbreezy8382 no the EPA is a federal regularly agency. DEP is a city agency that "protects" the environment from waste water.
This is to all the water treatment workers around the country
Thank you you are the reason modern societies can exist
never go in the East River.
Casey Neistat the idiot went in there... this guy is insane
Chuck Finley wtf
Your gorgeous 😳
@@MassiveKilla93xx gayyyyy
MassiveKilla93xx hey hey hey no need for people committing suicide :(
Code words for sewerage treatment plant workers:
Brown Trout = a large turd
Coney Island White Fish = Maxi pad
Beach Whistle = partially inflated rubber
G Rosa what’s a turd
Yo Mama Turd is shit
This is tooo funny. So what do they call a bloody maxi pad? Red Snapper 😂😂😂
When they find a dildo it's called a De Blasio.
coney island white fish is a condom
If I lived in NYC, I'd work at the sewage plant. It's one of the few places that smells better than the city itself.
"What's that smell????"
"It's the East River"
"You've been swimming in the East River?"
Kramer!
why would people throw their fish into the toilet? They must have watched Finding Nemo to many times I believe
people are crazy
B caz they ded
No, because they think they are setting them free
They do go free sometimes.
@@jackweatherhead8171 "sometimes"
I did some consulting work for Southerly waste water treatment plant where the sludge is dryed and burned....and when I asked one of the stationary engineers what happens when this plant has to shutdown, he replied: "Hey man, that shit never stops coming!"
D Wetick The sludge is used as daily cover at landfills
We sat out on Sandy Hook one fine day and watched barge after barge go out loaded and come back empty. I asked my guide where the refuse went and he said he didn't know...Now I know!
@@rachelledoninetch9560 sludge isnt used as cover. The landfill uses trash to cover the sludge then at the end of the day use dirt to cover the sludgey trash mixture
imagine dying and getting reborn into literally any part of this poop journey
Meanwhile people will kayak on the east river
All solids are removed from the water and anything remaining has had contact with sodium hypochorite and then that's stripped with sodium bisuflite . It's clean water. Many parts of the world would then send this same water through a few more steps and turn it into drinking water. Here in fla we reuse it for irrigation water .
Imaging that egg shaped container exploding , now that would be SHITTY situation....
Ill let myself out !
Getting shitted on by the whole city!!!!
Awww your just talking crap. 😁
Chernobyl
Yeah... Like that joke
These people are heros they work hard for our environment and health because unfortunately we as humans bring waste and with that comes responsibility to our planet.
Thanks for the presentation. It was very well done, and shows the dedication necessary to preserve a civilized lifestyle, without drowning in our own waste.
One of the key indicator of a well developed nation infrastructures is how advance in the way they treat their solid waste and sewer discharge without polluting their major cities and waterways. US is a head of other developed countries.
That process is very interesting, those wipes are such a big problem, but at least the facility is able to filter them out. Great job NYC 👍 👏 👌 🙌
Comment section - full of crap
Asoka tano😂 😂😂😂😂😂 good one
😂😂😂
Literally
Leave
Nothing in lower Manhattan? All those stockbrokers pooping and no nearby plant?
they poop gold, it immediately sent back to the fed, no processing needed
lol
3:19 As he pours bleach into it? 😂 we have cleaner wastewater than federal standards
Whats that say about federal standards?
Likely talking about chlorine, which is also likely to be in your tap water.
Actually the chlorinated water is dechlorinated before it gets put back out to nature
@@CigsInABlanket Probably flouride. Chlorine is somewhat harmful to drink, only in small concentrations (pool)
@@festivebear9946 Same could be said about fluoride. Many municipalities use chlorine to disinfect their water, though I'm sure fluoride is just as common.
Edit: also, pools generally contain much more chlorine than drinking water.
I don't know if someone else said this but this is where Nemo would have ended up . Tears.
Crappy video editing. At least let us see the equipment for more than 3 seconds. Too fast
Mike Krauss that is whatthe pause button is for o.o
Mike Krauss PAUSE BUTTON JEEZ
Mike Krauss slow it down then ahhhhh yaaaa stupid
Pausing the video does not give more in depth information on the equipment
You can slow it down too.
Amazing work!! Wish that we could have that kind of water treatment system in my country...
A hearty thanks to all the engineers and workers who make our load easy. Bless.
We need these kind of plants everywhere in India very much and ASAP.
Good morning sir
Now I know what those silver egg shaped structures are. I see them often and never knew. Pretty cool.
why would you add bleach into the water in the final step?
to destroy anything worse than bleach then later remove it to send it out into the river/ocean.
Treated water still can carry pathogenic micro-organisms. This reduces the chance of disease in large populous areas and down stream users. What he didn't mention in that they remove the chlorine/bleach in the final step. Usually with sodium metabisulfate so that it doesn't have a negative effect on the biology of the receiving waters.
hymer thank you for sharing that.
Light that’s wat I said. Cause that shit ain’t gonna help anyways
Because they want to ruin the rivers and oceans
If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more suprised than I am right now.
Can't get enough of those educational clips,👍
"The sludge is prepared for green uses such as fertilizer"
So you are basically eating all new yorker's shit all over again
SweBass the fertilizer is strictly only used on golf courses
tribulation138 No they just sell it to whoever wants it. Its in your food too, get over it. Look at Vice documentary about it.
SweBass um i dont care. you get over it. youre the one getting all bent out of shape
andre jacques stupid? Watch Vice videos where they follow the whole process. The shit is sold as fertilizer to grow foods all over again
andre jacques I never said you would die from eating chemicals that were used on fertilizers.
However if you fertilise with shit, eat it again shit it again and eat it again, this cycle over time evolves bad bacterias and it's becoming a concern
How does he not puke every time he goes to work?
Resistance.
Epic 6
That makes me wonder do u smoke
Makes money
he is used to dealing with everyones shit
Ever been in one of those candle shops or "body soap" places with the overpowering and nauseating smell of every kind of shitty lilac in the world? You hang out in those for a few minutes and the ridiculous smell of patchouli and sapphire mermaid breeze or whatever it is goes away. Your nose gets used to it.
This guy deals with everyone's shit but he's still so nice. Awesome!
Oh boy, a documentary on New Jersey!
I live a couple blocks from here and I pass by it sometimes and it never smells
*sometimes*
that's cause you're used to it..
Raghavendra Vaspula No, they have carbon odor scrubbers which keep any foul smells from the plant or public
The plant at Rockaway always smells! And it has a public school right next to it. And another school 500ft away. I'm choking every time I'm passing it! Poor kids...
This man is an unseen hero in my eyes
Watching this while on the toilet really gives you the full olfactory experience!
This channel is actually very good.
This process is so stupid!
In Serbia we just dump raw sewage straight in to the Danube river so we can swim in it later on!
I really wonder what the sewage system was like in the 30s and 40s in the City. Without modern technology the sewage tunnels probably leaked and broke a few times. And the smell must've been terrible.
This short docuvid definitely makes good dinner-time entertainment. =)
🤣🤣🤣
Ice bucket challenge = no one can challenge me
New york sewage gutter = hold my beer
It goes from New York to Detroit..
politically or practically :p
I thought they just pumped it back into the streets, I've been there once and it certainly seemed to me the case.
"Gettin your shit together" done right
This guy really knows his shit.
And I thought I had the worst
job
"THE PLANT OFFERS MONTHLY TOURS INCLUDING ONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
When there's shit involved there's always a comedian.
Thanks all who work doing this ... WOW.
I worked on a construction project at the Yonkers sewer plant. The gag factor was a 10.
My family calls this the egg factory
Never eating an egg, ever again.
Rotten
All my" yeyo" went down the drain, when the cops came. I love NYC.
Dragsville
We have something like this in Laval, Quebec. Just a few blocks from where I live near the river. We really need to build a ton of these everywhere.
What an informative video! Really knowledgable guy. I watched this on the toilet also
There’s fish with 3 eyes in that river!!!
Loli
I see nemo
Who the hell flushed their 9mm down the drain, and how???
Probably threw it in the sewer instead if flushing it
Probably someone committed a crime and before police can find evidence and his fingerprints on the gun better flush it off 😎
All drains lead to the sewage system , even the street drains
@@uploaded113redone not true in many cities
That's quite interesting. I was there in 2015, and I now know what has happened to my waste when I flushed it down the toilet.
Man that’s awesome!
Hey I have an idea just wonderful. Let's go for a swim in the east river😂
Is this where all the prom night foetus go?
Edgy? Really? That's the best sarcastic reply you could come up with?
Slay Slay CRAWLING IN MY SKIN!!!!!
It actually happens. People find foetuses in sewage.
"Prom night dumpster baby..."
Yes
thank you for this video!
Imagine thinking you got away with a crime and then 5 months later they find your gun at the sewage plant
No one:
CZcams recommendations: Hey Let’s look at where the NYC sewage goes!
I was tryna find a gud vid to eat my food while watching just why CZcams
So grateful that there are people willing to do this job in my benefit.
That being said I was cringing at the fact that they’re not wearing respiratory masks or gloves😷🤢
Yeah, gloves are a must for me. You often have to use thin gloves to be able to work on stuff, which tend to break pretty easily. To say the least, you scrub and scrub after that. As far as respirators, I've never known any wastewater employee to use them. If anything, I get less sick than the rest of my family. Maybe I have a more well built immune system because of it.😂
Glad to hear your on top of it
I always thought it went to some of the Jersey Shore beaches. Some of them do have garbage in the sand. I used to do metal detecting on those beaches and I was shocked at the amount of garbage I would find...I stopped doing the metal detecting after that experience.
So what happens to all of the flushed baggies of drugs after the filter catches it? Does it get destroyed alongside the rest of the solid waste you mentioned?
+palegreenstars
No, the sanitation workers keep the drugs. When they say they've "got some real good shit"...they MEAN it!
Youd love to sniff that powder, huh baby?
palegreenstars , yes all your frushed baggies were destroyed
It get repackaged back to the streets & resold
Tik tok girl brought me here. She’s now 92-95 percent cleaner than the rest of New Yorkers.
I don't understand/know what your are talking about.
Someone had to come up with the idea of this process snd the equipment. It's amazing
Great video on an important matter.
This guy's voice is the same of Peter Griffin.
Great report! And thanks to all the folks who do this essential work; we appreciate you!!
In 1946, I was watching guys fishing in the river, right by the Grant monument. There was a condom in the river about every three feet of separation. That sewage was no even screened for solid matter. Very sad.
Wow, amazing and very interesting, thank you.
I NEED TO SPEAK TO MY POOP DEALER ASAP
A lot of shitty puns on this video.
Xdd
Thank you DEP.
Good chemistry.