 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(October 2010) |
Shippan | |
|---|---|
  Shippan | |
| Coordinates: 41°02′55″N73°31′28″W / 41.0487°N 73.5244°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Connecticut |
| County | Fairfield County |
| City | Stamford |
Shippan is a neighborhood the city of Stamford, Connecticut, located along the Long Island Sound.
Prior to the late 19th century, the area of present-day Shippan was largely agricultural. [1] Starting around that time, Shippan Point (a section of Shippan) became a popular summer retreat for affluent New York City residents. [1] Sailing became popular among this demographic, and two yacht clubs were established by these people: the Stamford Yacht Club, and the Halloween Yacht Club. [1]
As a neighborhood with no administrative function, Shippan's boundaries are ambiguous. In a 2019 demographic report, the city of Stamford defined Shippan as largely confined to the peninsula of Shippan Point, which juts into the Long Island Sound, [2] and a 2005 profile of the neighborhood used Shippan and Shippan Point interchangeably. [1] However, some residents and local reporters also constitute areas north of Shippan Point as Shippan. [3] [4]
To the west of Shippan is the South End, to the north is Downtown, to the northeast is the East Side, and to the east is The Cove. The area south of the intersection of Shippan Avenue and Magee Avenue is considered the Shippan Point neighborhood. To the north, the Metro-North train tracks and Interstate 95 separate Shippan from Downtown Stamford.
Virtually all of Shippan Point is zoned for single-family and two-family residential buildings. [1] [2]
Major streets in Shippan include Shippan Avenue [1] and Elm Street.
Shippan is a demographically diverse neighborhood, although it varies from section to section. While the neighborhood is some to many working class people, [4] the Shippan Point area is notably more wealthy and homogenous. [1] [2] [4]
Shippan is dome to various types of ethnic businesses, including Asian Indian stores and Italian pizzerias on Cove Road, and European delis on Elm Street.[ citation needed ]
The neighborhood includes Cummings Park public beach, [1] St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, and St. Benedict Roman Catholic Church. The neighborhood also hosts a supermarket, and many restaurants and small retail businesses.[ citation needed ]
A Clairol factory is located where the Shippan meets the Cove section on Cove Avenue.[ citation needed ] In 2008, Clairol Corporation announced plans to sell the facility.[ citation needed ]
Shippan is home to the Water Pollution Control Authority, a sewage treatment plant. [3] The plant, which also serves Darien, is located on Magee Avenue by the East Branch of Stamford Harbor.[ citation needed ] Originally built in 1974 with a capacity of 17 million US gallons (64,000 m3) per day, the plant was upgraded in 2005 for $105 million, increasing its capacity to 24 million US gallons (91,000 m3) per day and a maximum peak flow capacity of 68 million US gallons (260,000 m3) per day.[ citation needed ] The city began treating sewage to remove nitrogen in 1988, and the 2005 upgrade increased the amount of nitrogen removed from sewage from 65 percent to 90 percent.[ citation needed ] The upgrade also included three odor-control machines at a total cost of $6 million.[ citation needed ] The machines use massive fans to suck odiferous fumes into chambers where chemicals are used to remove 99.9 percent of the hydrogen sulfide that causes the odor.[ citation needed ] An ultraviolet light disinfectant machine sterilizes the water in the plant and eliminates the need to use and store large amounts of chlorine. [5]
The plant is a major landmark in the neighborhood, [4] and many residents have previously complained about the smell that emanates from it. [3]
 | This Connecticut state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
The Anacostia River is a river in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States. It flows from Prince George's County in Maryland into Washington, D.C., where it joins with the Washington Channel and ultimately empties into the Potomac River at Buzzard Point. It is about 8.7 miles (14.0 km) long. The name "Anacostia" derives from the area's early history as Nacotchtank, a settlement of Necostan or Anacostan Native Americans on the banks of the Anacostia River.
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to certain municipalities and industrial users in the state, primarily in the Boston area.
Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City. Channelization made it one of the most heavily-used bodies of water in the Port of New York and New Jersey and thus one of the most polluted industrial sites in the United States, containing years of discarded toxins, an estimated 30,000,000 US gallons of spilled oil, including the Greenpoint oil spill, raw sewage from New York City's sewer system, and other accumulation from a total of 1,491 sites.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a regional wholesaler and the largest supplier of treated water in the United States. The name is usually shortened to "Met," "Metropolitan," or "MWD." It is a cooperative of fourteen cities, eleven municipal water districts, and one county water authority, that provides water to 19 million people in a 5,200-square-mile (13,000 km2) service area. It was created by an act of the California State Legislature in 1928, primarily to build and operate the Colorado River Aqueduct. Metropolitan became the first contractor to the State Water Project in 1960.
The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Highway 52 and Minnesota State Highway 55. The refinery is notable for being the largest in the United States to be located in a state without any oil wells. Overall, it ranked 14th in the country as of 2012 by production, with a nameplate capacity of 320,000 barrels (51,000 m3) per day. The facility is owned by Flint Hills Resources (FHR), a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Toronto Water is the municipal division of the City of Toronto under Infrastructure and Development Services responsible for the water supply network, and stormwater and wastewater management in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as well as parts of Peel and York Regions.
Riverbank State Park is a 28-acre (11 ha) state park built on top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993. On September 5, 2017, it was renamed Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, after longtime New York State Assembly member Denny Farrell who represented the surrounding area.
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority(DC Water) provides drinking water, sewage collection, and sewage treatment for Washington, D.C. The utility also provides wholesale wastewater treatment services to several adjoining municipalities in Maryland and Virginia, and maintains more than 9,000 public fire hydrants in Washington, D.C.
A combined sewer is a type of gravity sewer with a system of pipes, tunnels, pump stations etc. to transport sewage and urban runoff together to a sewage treatment plant or disposal site. This means that during rain events, the sewage gets diluted, resulting in higher flowrates at the treatment site. Uncontaminated stormwater simply dilutes sewage, but runoff may dissolve or suspend virtually anything it contacts on roofs, streets, and storage yards. As rainfall travels over roofs and the ground, it may pick up various contaminants including soil particles and other sediment, heavy metals, organic compounds, animal waste, and oil and grease. Combined sewers may also receive dry weather drainage from landscape irrigation, construction dewatering, and washing buildings and sidewalks.
The Stamford Yacht Club is located in Stamford, Connecticut. The club is located on Stamford Harbor, and has approximately 550 members. The current commodore is Richard L. West. The yacht club hosts a number of significant sailboat races during the season, including the Vineyard Race, held every Labor Day weekend, and the Valeur-Jensen Stamford Denmark Race, held in the fall.
The Millard H. Robbins, Jr. Water Reclamation Plant, which is operated by the Upper Occoquan Service Authority (UOSA), is located in Centreville, Virginia and it was formerly known as the Upper Occoquan Sewage Authority. UOSA serves the western portions of Fairfax and Prince William Counties, and the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park. The sewage treatment plant includes primary-secondary treatment and the following advanced wastewater treatment processes: chemical clarification, two-stage recarbonation with intermediate settling, multimedia filtration, granular activated carbon adsorption, chlorination for disinfection and dechlorination. The plant’s rated capacity is 54 million US gallons (200,000 m3) per day (mgd).
The South End of Stamford, Connecticut is a neighborhood located at the southern end of the city, just south of the Downtown neighborhood. The South End is a peninsula bordered by Downtown Stamford and Interstate 95 to the north and almost totally by water on all other sides, with few streets linking it to other neighborhoods.
Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) is the water and wastewater service operated by the City of Dallas, Texas, in the United States. DWU is a non-profit City of Dallas department that provides services to the city and 31 nearby communities, employs approximately 1450 people, and consists of 26 programs. DWU's budget is completely funded through the rates charged for water and wastewater services provided to customers. Rates are based on the cost of providing the services. The department does not receive any tax revenues. Primary authority and rules for the department are listed in Chapter 49 of the Dallas City Code.
VeraSun Energy Corporation was a leading producer of renewable fuel. Founded in 2001, the company at one time had a fleet of 16 production facilities in eight states, of which one was still under construction. VeraSun Energy was scheduled to have an annual production capacity of approximately 1.64 billion US gallons (6,200,000 m3) of ethanol and more than 5 million tons of distillers grains by the end of 2008. The company also had begun construction at its Aurora, South Dakota facility to extract oil from dried distillers grains, a co-product of the ethanol process, for use in biodiesel production.
