"I'm down at the sewer plant today - it's got slate roofs!"

Now, the sewer plant and 21,000-foot extension of the water line can no longer be postponed.

Clemons and his mother lived in public housing across the street from the city's sewer plant until he was 14 years old.

It was not until the town built its first sewer plant in 1987 that any real growth occurred.

The developers will pay their share of improvement or expansion of the sewer plant, they said.

The strikers included workers on the city's drawbridges and sewer plants.

The city acknowledges that its sewer plants are a big polluter, but it wants the suburbs to pay their share.

Currently, the sewage goes into a city truck, which transports it to the sewer plant without charge.

Two sewer plants have already tried the new procedure, and one plant operator has written a report on it.

Urine is the principal source of nitrogen from sewer plants.