The plant treats approximately 1.7 million gals.
One estimate was that $5 billion was spent to upgrade plants to treat sewage.
The plant treats 310 million gallons of sewage a day.
The amount illegally discharged is small compared with the 1.8 billion gallons of sewage the city's 14 plants treat each day.
Despite the odor, the plant is treating the waste as planned.
After five years of service, the plant is already treating as much as it was designed to handle, 170 million gallons a day.
The city's 14 plants treat a total of 1.8 billion gallons of sewage a day.
At current, the plant treats 3.6 million gallons per day.
The plant, which opened in 1952, initially treated energy as if it were as cheap and plentiful as the air.
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