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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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Raw sewage flooding homes in Mount Vernon
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MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) Angry homeowners in Mount Vernon are blasting the city over its response to a raw sewage leak that has flooded several homes and businesses. It s absolutely ridiculous, says Wayne Fletcher. I don t know how much more of this I can take any more.
The sewer lines below 3rd Street between 7th to 13th Avenues have been a trouble spot for years.
Blockages occur where two 24-inch pipes feed into a connector that s only 10 inches wide. The sewage is not from my house, it s like from hundreds of my neighbor s houses. If that s not a health risk and a hazard, I don t know what is, says Fletcher.
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Updated on:Jan 28, 2021, 10:32pm EST
Many houses in the Third Street corridor of Mount Vernon are dealing with a gross problem raw sewage. But the issue isn t a new one, neighbors say.
Wayne Fletcher says the problem goes back years, causing consistent cleanups. I literally had to pick up a bucket of sewage out of my sock three days in a row, says Fletcher.
Fletcher says it has only gotten worse, so he s been calling the Department of Public Works for weeks begging for help, but to no avail.
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