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CROTON, N.Y. – The Westchester County Department of Health warned people on Wednesday against use of the Hudson River for recreational purposes and to avoid direct contact with the water from Croton Point Park and points south until further notice.
Due to a break in a sewer line in Tarrytown, there is expected to be a controlled discharge of several million gallons of chlorinated raw sewage into the Hudson River at Sleepy Hollow overnight, according to a press release issued by the health department Wednesday evening.
The treated sewage bypass is needed so that repairs can be made to the sewer line. The sewer line break is also expected to result in chlorinated raw sewage being discharged into the Hudson River at Yonkers.
As a precautionary measure, the health department is alerting people who use the waters of the Hudson River of the potential that there may be sewage effluent in the river from Croton Point Park and points south during the discharge period.
The department is asking residents to curtail activities including swimming, boating, kayaking, windsurfing and bathing in the river until further notice. Notifications are being made to marinas located on the Hudson River as well as to affected municipalities.
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What a joke ? Ya where is the environmentalists now? Hudson getting cleaner lets blame GE and Indian point . Both doing so much more tan you cd imagine for everyone's benefit. Hudson will always b a dumping facility on the stretch of peninsula down to the city . Every year a sewer burst nothing changes.
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When was the last time the public was told not to have contact with the river from a discharge from Indian Point? I would venture there is more harm being done from one of these so called controlled discharges than anything Indian Point has done.