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.
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WATCH HEREPolice 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.
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.
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