A city employee made a gruesome discovery at a Bronx filtration facility on Wednesday when what appeared to be half of a person's leg turned up on a sewage conveyor belt, authorities say.
Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation tell News 4 the leg looked like it could have belonged to a baby or a young person.
The report about the find at the Department of Environmental Protection's Ryawa Avenue building in Hunts Point came in around 8:30 a.m. Police say a worker reported finding a left leg, from the knee down, on the conveyor belt.
Police scoured the plant for the rest of the day, and the city medical examiner's office said it sent a team to the scene to investigate as well. The ME will determine whether the remains belonged to a child, and if so, how it may have happened.
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The Hunts Point treatment plant cleans more than 200 million gallons of wastewater from more than 700,000 homes a year, according to the DEP website. Part of the treatment process includes screening for waste on the conveyor belt, which is where the presumed leg was found.
No other details were immediately available.
