Capital Region Water’s new plan is inadequate and will not stop the chronic sewage releases that have made Harrisburg’s beautiful waterfront a threat to public health.
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Dear afish,
While this is news to some it's shouldn't be news to old people like us!
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Harrisburg has its problems for sure, but so then do Binghamton, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre on upriver, and Clearfield, Lock Haven, and Williamsport on the West Branch.
CSO's have been a problem for all of my lifetime, and very little has been done to address them.
When I moved to Johnson City NY in 1993 and I told people where I fished, they would say, "You fish at the poop pipe?" For them, people who were in their 50's and 60's when I was in my 30's I was fishing where the sewerage entered the river back in their day, without any treatment.
Since then, they cleaned things up, but the old "new" sewerage plant that was totally rebuilt flooded out and was literally destroyed a few years ago. And that's just one of many that suffered the same fate.
It's amazing what we have done, and not in a positive way, to the most vital resource on the Earth, clean water.
I'm glad I'm getting old.
Regards,
Tim Murphy