WORCESTER, Mass., Aug.

WORCESTER, Mass., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoEnergy Corporation (Pink Sheets: TMEN) has announced that it has entered into a $27.1 million contract with the City of New York, to deploy a state-of-the-art ammonia recovery system at the City's 26th Ward Wastewater Treatment Plant situated on Jamaica Bay.

By RICHARD PYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Jamaica Bay is a pristine waterway located within the only national park in New York City, a place where herring gulls pirouette overhead, Canada geese sail in naval formation in quiet coves and harbor seals frolic on the shoreline.

By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Mar. 23--Every day, Nassau County's Bay Park sewage plant discharges some 58 million gallons of treated effluent to Reynolds Channel amid a classic South Shore backdrop of marsh islands, migratory birds and lonely bay houses.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. _ Fred Mushacke hopped down from the causeway to the edge of West Pond in Glen Cove, N.Y., his rubber boots sinking into gluey mud as he sketched out a landscape that no longer exists.