In recent years, the City of Niagara Falls’ water treatment plant has become an international embarrassment. In 2017, the unsightly and confounding stenches of untimely sewage discharges — merely a few hundred feet from the loading docks of the Maid of the Mist — became the subject of international news stories that have damaged the City’s brand as a destination for eco-tourism.
Those discharges included toxic sediments that have long been leeching the City’s sewer lines. Much of the City’s downtown sewer lines are still made of wood. The vestiges of our industrial history (first catalyzed by cheap hydroelectric, and later with the wartime pursuit of the Manhattan Project), some of the world’s most toxic materials have literally been seeping into the sewer system, accumulating the toxic sludge that now must be periodically drained from the plant’s treatment basins.
3 responses to “As water infrastructure crumbles, what do Niagara Falls’ mayoral candidates plan to do with Sewer Plant?”
Nice well researched article Matt
No it’s not. The author could have easily done a foil request for the information. It’s quite a disservice to the reader to blatantly lie like this.
The city has been going down hill for a long time and it is embarrassing to see this city in this condition. Tourist and seasonal will not boost this city. The business tax base is too high. Look at how Pittsburgh reinvented itself and was not afraid to test new waters. You need to think global and not local.
Think out of the box and don’t be afraid to try new things. The past is the past and it will never be the same, but one wants to live in the past. Move forward and if you ruffle some old guard feathers who have controlled this city, so be it!