Nassau County Bay Park Wastewater Treatment Plant / Empire State Building / /
IndustryTerm
sanitary sewer systems / green infrastructure / local wastewater systems / supplement wastewater treatment systems / coastal infrastructure / wastewater infrastructure / wastewater pipe systems / treatment systems / sewer infrastructure / municipal sewer systems / sewer systems / faulty infrastructure / climate change strains aging sewer systems / wastewater systems / wastewater treatment systems / municipal wastewater systems / wastewater treatment infrastructure / /
NaturalFeature
Great Lakes / East Coast / Hudson River / Rising Threat Rising sea / /
Organization
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / New York City Department of Environmental Protection / American Meteorological Society / Federal Emergency Management Agency / American Society of Civil Engineers / Center for American Progress / Trinity River Authority / /
Person
TONY DEJAK / Kenneth E. Kunkel / Shiva Polefka / Arpita Bhattacharyya / Wastewater Infrastructure By Ben Bovarnick / Katharine Hayhoe / /
Product
lives / storm / infrastructure / capacity / /
ProvinceOrState
Texas / New Jersey / Minnesota / Alabama / Alaska / Orange / Louisiana / Hawaii / New York / Rhode Island / Mississippi / Los Angeles / Florida / New York and New Jersey / /
PublishedMedium
New York Times / Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society / /
Region
Western United States / East Coast / New England / Southern California / /
ASSOCIATED PRESS/TONY DEJAK Rising Waters, Rising Threat How Climate Change Endangers America’s Neglected Wastewater Infrastructure By Ben Bovarnick, Shiva Polefka, and Arpita Bhattacharyya October 2014