Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na-edozi akụkụ buru ibu nke mmiri na-asọpụ site n'akụkụ ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Manhattan. Mmiri nsị si na Financial District, Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, Midtown East na East Side ruo n'okporo ámá 71 na-asọ site na 180 kilomita nke ọkpọkọ mmiri na ọkpọkọ ndị na-egbochi mmiri na Thirteenth Street Pumping Station na 13th Street na Avenue D, site na ebe a na-eziga ya n'okpuru Osimiri East na osisi ahụ. Mmiri na-erugharị n'ime ya bụ nde galọn US 170 (450 nde L; 100 nde imp gal) kwa ụbọchị, nke na-abawanye ruo nde galọn US 300 (450 nde L; 100 nde imp gal) n'oge udu mmiri. Mgbe oke mmiri dị ukwuu mere n'oge nkwụsị nke New York City na 1977, 828 nde US galọn (3.134 ijeri L; 689 nde imp gal) nke nsị na-adịghị ọcha wụfuru n'osimiri ọwụwa anyanwụ), gọọmentị etiti nyere iwu na 1995 ka obodo ahụ wuo ụlọ ọrụ nkwado. N'agbanyeghị nke a, ọkụ ọkụ nke Northeast blackout nke 2003
mepụtara 145 nde US galọn (550 nde L; 121 nde imp gal) nke untreated sewage wụsara. N'afọ 1998, ndị ọchịchị obodo ahụ malitere ime ka ebe ahụ na-ebuwanye ibu. E wuru ụlọ ahụ na 2014, ụlọ ọrụ ahụ nọkwa na-emeghe n'oge niile a na-emezigharị. Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ nwere ike ịnagide galọn mmiri mkpofu 310 nde kwa ụbọchị, ebe ihe dị ka galọn 250 nde bụ nkezi kwa ụbọchị, na-anọchite anya ihe dịka 18% nke mmiri mkpofu obodo.