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First Aired - 12/12/2011 10:00AM
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This week The Naturalist takes you on a historical tour of New York City's water supply. From the early days in the 1700s when the city got its water from aqueducts from Croton and the Catskill mountains to today's modern high-tech testing and treatment system. Learn what makes New York water some of the cleanest and best in the nation and how hydrofracking could ruin all of that. This episode is sponsored Roberta's Pizza.
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New York Water: A History (19:33)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, Handel, Water Music, water supply, manure, city water supply, water pumps, Westchester County, Croton River, dam, resevoir, Reseovoir, aqueduct, Central Park, Bethesda Terrace, Angel of the Waters, sculpture, women artists, Book of John, Emma Stubbs, gay, runoff, Catskill Mountains, masonry, the Bronx, East River, New Jersey, Delaware River,Ensuring Water Quality (21:54)
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First Aired - 09/22/2011 11:00AM
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This week on Growing Good, Alessandra gives listeners some good information on lead poisoning and sources of lead in the household. Learn why so many commercially sold juices could be dangerous and how to protect yourself and your child from poisoning. Find out about proposed bills and propositions designed to protect us and how to make safer baby formula! This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.
Photo: Lead testing kit
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First Aired - 02/24/2013 01:00PM
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What happens to our waste water and how does it get cleaned? Find out on Straight, No Chaser as Katy Keiffer chats with Jim Pynn, Superintendent at the Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Get down and dirty as Jim explains the three steps in waterwaste treatment, including a very interesting process of using microorganisms. Find out what kinds of regulations are in place for businesses to account for chemicals in wastewater and learn how the city dealt with the effects Super Storm Sandy had on our wastewater infrastructure. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"Modern waste water treatment plants were not meant for metals and petroleums. NYC has an industrial pre-treatment program. anybody with a business in NY has to report their chimerical usage to DEP and we have the right to monitor it. Any excess chemicals are the responsibility of the business." [12:00]
--Jim Pynn, Superintendent at the Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
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