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CSO is the product of a centuries-old sewage system and the thought process of urban planners who couldn’t possibly predict the urban metropolis that is New York today.
“While at the time the cities’ early engineers and city planners saw this combined sewer system as that height of innovation, I don’t think they could have anticipated not only how quickly New York City grew, but how impervious it has become,” said Mikelle Adgate of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection.