The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) has been tasked through its State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit requirements to implement and maintain a floatables control program as well as a monitoring program
The State of the Sewers report provides an overview of how the City’s sewer system works, DEP’s approach to inspection, cleaning, and repair of the system, a breakdown of the most recurrent causes of sewer blockages, a look at the new employee training facility and safety program...
As an enhancement and modification of the two-year cycle of surveying the City’s coastal waters under the Shoreline Survey Program, a Sentinel Monitoring Program was designed, with NYSDEC, to monitor specific sampling areas for fecal coliform (a raw sewage indicator) in water bodies throughout NYC.