Dee ihe ndị ọzọ dị na paragraf a - N'afọ 1967, obodo ahụ rụrụ Ụlọ Ọrụ Na-ahụ Maka Mmiri Ọkụ na Newtown Creek, nke bụzi ụlọ ọrụ kacha ukwuu na-ahụ maka mmiri na-adịghị mma nke Ngalaba Na-ahụ Maka Nchedo Gburugburu Ebe Obibi na New York City na-elekọta. N'ịbụ nke dị n'akụkụ ndịda nke osimiri ahụ n'ebe dị nso n'ọnụ osimiri ahụ na Greenpoint, ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na-edozi akụkụ buru ibu nke mmiri si 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 nke 71 na-esi n'okporo ámá na-agafe n'okporo ámá na-agafe n'okporo ámá na-agafe n'okporo ámá na-agafe n'okporo ámá nke iri na atọ n'okporo ámá nke iri na atọ na Avenue D, site na ebe a na-eziga ya n'okpuru Osimiri East na osisi ahụ. Ọ na-adịkarị kwa ụbọchị, nke na-abawanye n'oge mmiri na-ezo. Mgbe nnukwu mmiri gbara na New York City n'afọ 1977 (nke mmiri nsị na-adịghị ọcha wụfuru n'Osimiri Ọwụwa Anyanwụ), gọọmentị etiti nyere iwu n'afọ 1995 ka obodo ahụ wuo ebe nchekwa. N'agbanyeghị nke a, ọkụ ọkụ nke Northeast blackout nke 2003
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