61.  The waste issue has become more urgent after preliminary findings by scientists working for the environmental agency that virus pathogens from waste water exist in sea water near shore.

62.  The waste water is held in large ponds and recycled.

63.  The waste water was held for various lengths of time in the ponds, then treated and filtered before being discharged under state permit into the Arthur Kill.

64.  The well-understood technology, which deploys plants to absorb nutrients, has been used successfully to treat waste water in Arcata, Calif., and many other communities.

65.  There is a large receptacle for fresh water and another for waste water, both changed daily.

66.  These audits include information that many companies routinely collect, like the amount of toxic material in waste water.

67.  They are also sampling waste water and drinking water in a search for possible contamination by estrogen-like or other chemicals that might play a role.

68.  They talk of businesses driven out, of the waste water that regulators complained about and that someone then put in an aquarium.

69.  They will use energy-efficient appliances and low-flush composting toilets and will have no problem gardening with waste water.

70.  Tosco is the only company that has violated the waste water dioxin limits, Tang said.