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Visitor Center at Newtown CreekHours of Operation:The Visitor Center is open by appointment only. Please call 718-595-5140 for updates on the Visitor Center hours. Learn about New York City’s water resources through exhibitions and programs featuring our water supply and wastewater treatment systems featuring DEP employees who narrate the cycle of water from water supply to distribution, wastewater treatment, and harbor water quality. Visitor Center at the Newtown Creek WWTP | |
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EducationThis fascinating new facility will help you learn about the one billion gallons of water New Yorkers use every day, the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts, and water mains, and the responsibilities, through the eyes of our dedicated workforce, to serve New Yorkers. |
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Programs To schedule a visit for your school or class to the Visitor Center, please download and fill out this organization outreach request form and email it to educationoffice@dep.nyc.gov.  Learn more |
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Green Threads: My Green Guide to Brooklyn My Green Guide to Brooklyn, created by Brooklyn Children’s Museum, encourages young people to explore the borough’s many parks, neighborhoods and other special places, including the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. My Green Community: An Educator Guide includes information about the city’s water supply and wastewater treatment systems with a special focus on conservation. Learn more |
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Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this is the largest of New York City's 14 wastewater treatment plants. Learn more |
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Newtown Creek Digester Eggs The Newtown Creek Digester Eggs are the award-winning landmark that has risen from the Brooklyn waterfront of the East River. Learn more |
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Newtown Creek Waterfront Nature Walk The George Trakas–designed Waterfront Nature Walk provides the first public access to the Newtown Creek waterfront in decades. Learn more |
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EventsPlanning an Event at the Visitor Center:The Visitor Center at Newtown Creek is a unique event space and the two story building offers a modern, one-of-a-kind environment. The bottom floor houses a signature water sculpture designed by world-renowned artist Vito Acconci that symbolizes the flow of drinking water to New York City from the upstate watersheds. With stairway and elevator access, the second floor contains a gallery space, multi-purpose room, pantry, bathrooms, and exciting and exclusive views of the Wastewater Treatment Plant. With a room capacity of 170 people, the multi-purpose room provides access to a projector and screen, over 120 chairs, and over 15 tables. If you are interested in using the Visitor Center for a meeting or event or have any other questions please email events@dep.nyc.gov. Although tours of the entire Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant facility are not available, we do have monthly public tours of the award-winning Digester Eggs. Tour participants must be age 12 or above. Please see our events calendar for the next scheduled tour. Reservations are required. To make a reservation on the next tour please email events@dep.nyc.gov. Questions? Check out the FAQs. |
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2012 Spring Speaker Series at the Visitor Center At Newtown Creek Download the flyer |
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Down In the Ground (D.I.G.) Interactive Installation and Dance Performance Down In the Ground (D.I.G.) is a performance installation in which participants uncover the invisible infrastructure of New York City by means of interactive video, sound, and movement. May 19 through June 2 at the Visitor Center at Newtown Creek. Download the flyer |
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Recently Exhibited at the Visitor Center Portraits: Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Staff explores the industrious people behind the scenes and the diverse jobs they hold. From electrician to oiler, the viewer gets an inside look into the fascinating everyday work life of these proud workers. Explore Portraits now |
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