{"id":20520,"date":"2017-07-31T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20520"},"modified":"2017-07-31T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:16:25","slug":"discharge-creates-foul-smelling-black-water-in-niagara-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/discharge-creates-foul-smelling-black-water-in-niagara-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Discharge creates foul-smelling black water in Niagara River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/07\/31\/discharge-creates-foul-smelling-black-water-in-niagara-river\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Water near the base of Niagara Falls turned an alarming shade of black before tourists&#8217; eyes Saturday afternoon following a foul-smelling discharge from a wastewater treatment plant on the U.S. side.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Falls Water Board, in Niagara Falls, N.Y., said Saturday&#8217;s discharge was part of routine maintenance of one of its wastewater sedimentation basins.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Maid of the Mist and Rainbow Air took to social media Saturday to express their concerns, posting a video and photograph of the dark, sludgy-looking water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the smelly black discharge into Niagara River on very busy tourist weekend?\u201d the Maid of the Mist posted on Twitter and asking the Niagara Falls, N.Y. mayor for answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Water near the base of Niagara Falls turned an alarming shade of black before tourists&#8217; eyes Saturday afternoon following a foul-smelling discharge from a wastewater treatment plant on the U.S. side. The Niagara Falls Water Board, in Niagara Falls, N.Y., said Saturday&#8217;s discharge was part of routine maintenance of one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[12799,88,653,1139,12800,12801,7837],"class_list":["post-20520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-discharge","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-falls-water-board","tag-rainbow-air","tag-wastewater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20521,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions\/20521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}