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In an effort to conserve water and escape a development moratorium on the Upper East Side, the city agreed yesterday to a major expansion of the mammoth sewage plant that serves upper Manhattan and the West Bronx.
Under a consent order with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the city has agreed to a costly series of steps that will bring the plant's swollen waste flow in line with the plant's treatment capacity.
To comply with yesterday's order, the city will spend $100 million to boost Wards Island's capacity to 290 million gallons, said Andrew McCarthy, a spokesman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection. That work is to be completed by 1996.
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