TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN A cheese-clogged pipe resulted in untreated water discharged by the Cayadutta Creek, according to a state alert notification issued Sunday. Discharged over the duration of 17 minutes was an estimated 1,300 gallons of dairy washwater from the Gloversville Johnstown Joint Wastewat
For most people, it may be news enough just to learn that waste can be turned into money. But the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Wastewater Treatment Facility has just made even more surprising news after netting its biggest monthly check since the plant began converting wastewater into salable power
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JOHNSTOWN & GLOVERSVILLE – The NY-Alert system reported a 40-gallon antifreeze solution leak from the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Wastewater Treatment Facility into the Cayadutta Creek.
According to the report Wednesday, the leak occurred at 11:32 a.m., lasted for 18 minutes and was caused by a pipe break from the treatment facility’s CONGEN-3 methane to electricity generator used to provide heat to the plant’s “Sludge Building.”
State law requires municipalities to report to the Department of Environmental Conservation whenever any publicly owned sewage treatment plant has a sewer spill. DEC then sends out NY-Alert emails to people who’ve signed up to receive them and posts the information online to alert.ny.gov.
JOHNSTOWN The Gloversville-Johnstown Wastewater Treatment Facility recently experienced a major emergency power failure in late April, and repairs costing a
JOHNSTOWN Sewer rates for residents of the Glove Cities are expected to increase by a considerable 11 percent for 2021-22 mainly due to the COVID-19 pan