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Wed Jul 13, 2016, 01:50 PM Jul 2016

Trump and his buddies dumped 24 million gallons of sewage a day in the Hudson River: report

How do you solve a problem like raw sewage? In 1994 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a building development nightmare and turned it into lemonade, just not the kind you’d want to drink.

According to a Daily Beast report, years after Trump’s 1974 acquisition of the Penn Central rail yards on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, he decided to build a concentrated apartment building mixed with a new television studio for NBC called Television City. He wanted it to be the world’s tallest building at the time, towering 154 stories above the Hudson River and casting a substantial shadow over Central Park and most of the Upper West Side.

The problem with the development, other than the ugliness that would have towered over the city, was what to do with the sewage it would produce. Like something out of a Dickens novel, New York in 1986 still dumped a fair amount of sewage into the Hudson River. The city tried to solve their poo problem with a new sewage treatment plant, designed to clean 170 million gallons of excrement each day. The problem, however, is that Manhattan produced over 200 million gallons of sewage, leaving at least 30 million gallons dumping into the Hudson. On days when it rained, it was even more.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/trump-and-his-cronies-dumped-24-million-gallons-of-sewage-a-day-in-the-hudson-river-report/

This is Donald Trump's real answer for America's future.

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