<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1bZEdM_16VQnClJ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1bZEdM_16VQnClJ00" width="1200" height="600" >THERESA, New York (WWNY) - Thousands of gallons of sewage, which wasn’t fully treated, made its way into the Indian River earlier this month.If you’re signed up for New York Alert, you may have received a sewage pollution report in your email. It stated that around 5,000 gallons of sewage, described as partially treated but not disinfected, was discharged into the Indian River It started at the village of Theresa’s wastewater treatment plant, where water that hadn’t fully been treated began seeping into the river over the course of several hours.What caused it? A broken part in the village’s wastewater treatment machine, a drive bearing that’s integral to the treatment process, and village officials hadn’t noticed the signs that it was on the verge of breaking. “Unfortunately, the only way to know that these bearings are going is you’ll feel or hear a vibration, and we did not feel a vibration,” said Scott Sampson, village superintendent.He says the discharge that made it into the Indian River won’t affect residents because it’s not water used in homes. As for environmental impact, he says it would be very minimal.But, currently, the village has no functioning wastewater treatment. What happens to the wastewater still in Theresa’s broken treatment machine?“We didn’t want to put it into the river, so we’ll haul it to Watertown just so the community has no worries,” said Sampson.Watertown says it’s received around 48,000 gallons of Theresa’s wastewater since the village’s machine broke. That’s about half the amount of total waste the city received from Theresa in all of 2024. That being said, city wastewater officials say the influx isn’t an issue.“The volume has increased that they’re giving us, but the amount of solids that they’re giving us is significantly less. That’s why what they’re bringing us now will not affect us as much,” said Angel French, chief operator of the city’s wastewater treatment plant.Theresa’s superintendent says the part needed to fix the machine should arrive on Wednesday, and he’s hoping to have the treatment machine fixed by Thursday.</div></body>

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THERESA, New York (WWNY) - Thousands of gallons of sewage, which wasn’t fully treated, made its way into the Indian River earlier this month. If you’re signed up for New York Alert, you may have received a sewage pollution report in your email. It stated that around 5,000...

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