I can't wait to see what our NYC readers think of the new Newton Creek Nature Walk. I guess this must be Brooklyn's Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the city's biggest sewage processing facility, way of giving something other than monstrous sewage floods or disgusting combined sewer overflows back to the community. This plan was met with healthy skepticism from the Newsday newspaper, Largely due to two aspects of the project: 1) It cost $3 million! Couldn't that money have been better spent by the sewer operator to improve the treatment facility's ability to prevent sewage spills and overflows? 2) The nature walk's new "fishing piers" and kayak and canoe launches. The section of Newton Creek, an industrialized waterway between Brooklyn and Queens, where this nature walk has been installed has a history of pollution and impairment for fishing and primary contact of which the treatment works is a contributes to. I'm sure this bit of greenwashing has the brass at the treatment works feeling nice and clean because Newton Creek isn't.

Now for the Spills of the Week: