Since colonial times, the city had regularly dumped raw sewage into it.

By law, boats are not allowed to dump sewage.

So the bad things are diluted, which does not help much if you're near a place where someone is dumping raw sewage.

And the city has been dumping raw sewage into the Hudson Channel area for decades.

By the 1950s, 29 sewers were dumping untreated sewage into the river.

They have to be told, or reminded, that they are dumping raw sewage.

Boaters caught dumping treated sewage will be subject to fines, he said.

About 95 percent of the world's urban areas dump raw sewage into rivers and other bodies of water, the report said.

Our lawsuit against the companies who've been dumping raw sewage into the river has been thrown out of court.

"Yes, I'd like to report a boat dumping sewage in the water."