NYC's Valentine's Day sewage plant tour will be virtual this year
Tickets for the Feb. 14 virtual tour cost $5
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Even a pandemic can’t stop New York City’s annual Valentine’s Day sewage plant tour -- but this year, it’s moving online.
Every year, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection partners with Open House New York to offer a Valentine’s Day tour of the city’s largest sewage plant, the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility in Brooklyn.
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The tour is reportedly "wildly popular" and typically sells out quickly, according to the New York Post.
But this year, the tour will be held over Zoom for just $5, according to the Eventbrite page. The hour-long event will start at 4:30 on Sunday, Feb. 14. The DEP also offers tours in April and October.
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Aside from a virtual tour of the facility, the event will also include a conversation with DEP Director of Public Design Outreach Alicia West and an audience Q&A.
"Grab a date (or join solo) and take a peek inside the city’s largest sewage treatment plant, where wastewater—collected from storm drains and the toilets and sinks of more than one million New Yorkers—is cleaned each day in a complex system, including eight giant stainless steel digester eggs," the tour’s Eventbrite page says.
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If virtually touring a sewage plant isn’t your jam, you can also celebrate Valentine’s Day by naming a cockroach after your ex.
Brookfield Zoo, just outside Chicago, allows you to name one of its Madagascar hissing cockroaches with a $15 donation to the zoo.
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Those who choose to do so will receive a certificate of naming and a place on the zoo’s Cockroach Naming Board, which will be unveiled on Valentine’s Day.