{"id":20540,"date":"2017-08-02T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20540"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:44:43","slug":"cuomo-orders-probe-of-black-water-in-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/cuomo-orders-probe-of-black-water-in-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo orders probe of black water in Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/08\/01\/cuomo-orders-probe-of-black-water-in-niagara-falls\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn\u2019t believe a Niagara Falls, N.Y., agency\u2019s claims surrounding wastewater discharges that turned the water near the base of Niagara\u2019s falls black at the height of a busy tourist weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A day after directing state regulators to investigate, the Democrat told reporters Tuesday he believes there will be a criminal investigation because of the potential seriousness of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He said he doesn\u2019t believe the Niagara Falls Water Board\u2019s statement the discharge from the local wastewater treatment plant was within permitted limits.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo said Monday the expulsion of foul-smelling, black water into the Niagara River on Saturday may have violated state water quality standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn\u2019t believe a Niagara Falls, N.Y., agency\u2019s claims surrounding wastewater discharges that turned the water near the base of Niagara\u2019s falls black at the height of a busy tourist weekend. A day after directing state regulators to investigate, the Democrat told reporters Tuesday&#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":[54,2],"tags":[5823,12813,12799,12814,653,41,1139,12800,144,12815],"class_list":["post-20540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-black-water","tag-discharge","tag-foul-smelling","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-falls-water-board","tag-niagara-river","tag-water-quality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540","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=20540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20541,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions\/20541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}