September 19, 2011 (NEW ENGLAND) About four million of the estimated 4.3 million bacteria-collecting sewage disks discharged from a New Hampshire sewage treatment plant in March have been recovered.           

Enpro, the company hired to collect the thin plastic, 2-inch in diameter disks, says that they have been recovered in coastal areas from Maine, to Massachusetts and Rhode Island.            

Thousands of the disks washed up on Cape Cod and Island beaches this past Spring.            The disks are not considered hazardous.           

Heavy rains caused the disks and 300,000 gallons of raw sewage to leave the Hooksett Wastewater Treatment plant on March 6th.           

Enpro was paid $125,000 by the town of Hooksett to recover as many as possible.