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Reply What lurks below isn t pretty according to a panel of environmental justice advocates and civic leaders. (Shutterstock) MOUNT VERNON, NY Nobody expects to find much to be happy about in the sewers, but what a group of civic leaders, environmentalists and social justice advocates found under the streets of Mount Vernon should trouble us all. The city of Mount Vernon pit its mounting sewage crisis on center stage Monday when hosting environmentalist Catherine Coleman Flowers on a tour of its infamous sewage system. Flowers is the author of Waste: One Woman s Fight Against America s Dirty Secret. Flowers is also the Founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ), a 2020 MacArthur fellow and serves as Vice Chair on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She took the eye-opening tour, accompanied by Interim President of the Natural Resource Defense Council Mitch Bernard, Aclima CEO Davida Herzl and Professor and Engineer from Co

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