And while industry on the river is nowhere near what it once was, municipal sewage plants are discharging more treated waste into the Delaware than ever.

Would have enabled the state to apply for Federal funds to create a revolving loan program for upgrading municipal sewage treatment plants.

Such substances can harm water quality and wildlife, as well as damage municipal sewage treatment plants.

The wastes were discharged directly into it but as of 2012 it was piped to the municipal sewage treatment plant.

The city will upgrade four municipal sewage treatment plants over the next decade so they discharge substantially less nitrogen.

In the years since then, the two countries have spent billions of dollars building municipal sewage treatment plants and establishing monitoring stations along the lakes.

In 1984, there were 170 industrial and four municipal sewage treatment plants surrounding the lake.

Point source pollution is discharged directly from a specific site such as a municipal sewage treatment plant or an industrial outfall pipe.

It could also involve the construction of a smaller municipal sewage treatment plant, but this is far less likely, he said.

The main reason is four antiquated municipal sewage treatment plants on the East River.