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Times Newsweekly "Five-Year Plan To Improve DEP and City’s Water System" Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway has unveiled “Strategy 2011-2014,” a plan that lays out 100 distinct initiatives designed to make DEP the safest, most efficient, cost-effective, and transparent water utility in the nation. Each initiative directly advances one of DEP’s core functions: serving nine million water customers; supplying and treating more than one billion gallons of water every day; making cost-effective infrastructure investments; and achieving a sustainable quality of life for all New Yorkers.(02/24/2011) |
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New York Daily news "Such sweet suck-cess! Cleaner sewers the result of extensive DEP effort to clear city's veins" DEP workers have been clearing sewage pipes all around New York City. A boulder the size of a love seat. A concrete highway barricade. A deflated basketball. A water bottle encrusted with grease.That is the junk that has clogged New York sewers for years.(02/20/2011) |
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WNYC "Drink to This: New York City's Watershed Deal Will Continue " New Yorkers proud of their water supply, filtered only by upstate forests and meadows, can now look forward to another 15 years of quality H2O. Under an agreement between the city, state and federal EPA, a land acquisition program targeting private properties in the watershed area will continue.(02/16/2011) |
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The New York Times "City Is Looking at Sewage Treatment as a Source of Energy" New York City’s sewage presents a daunting and costly challenge: it creates foul odors and often contaminates waterways. But the city is now casting its sewage treatment plants and the vast amounts of sludge, methane gas and other byproducts of the wastewater produced by New Yorkers, as an asset — specifically, as potential sources of renewable energy.(02/09/2011) |
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NY1 "Proposal To Rid City Of Dirty Heating Oil Sparks Debate" City officials say they want the image of a plume of black smoke pouring from a building, polluting the air we breath, relegated to the history books. "We would love to see the end of the black smoke. And that is one of the great motivations for this," said Carter Strickland of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.(01/28/2011) |
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The Brooklyn Paper "‘Walk’ this way! City to expand Newtown Creek nature path" Greenpoint’s four-year-old Newtown Creek Nature Walk will nearly double in size thanks to new city funding. The city has budgeted $14-million to connect the existing Provost Street entrance to a new 900-foot pathway to Kingsland Avenue and N. Henry Street, giving the public even more unfettered access to the fetid waterway.(01/20/2011) |
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The Epoch Times "New York: Managing Snowstorm Overflow in the City's Sewers" The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in cooperation with other city agencies is now looking at more environmentally sustainable ways of managing storm water and tackling the problem of combined sewage overflow (CSO).(01/18/2011) |
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The City Concealed - an online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. "The High Bridge" The High Bridge, completed in 1848 and now New York City’s oldest standing bridge, spans the Harlem River at 173rd Street in Manhattan.(01/11/2011) |
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Times Herald-Record "Lab in mid-Hudson keeps water clean and safe in NYC" KINGSTON — They venture out every day, armed with sterile bottles, boats and high-tech testing equipment. These defenders of New York City's drinking water take their samples from huge reservoirs, back-wood streams and nearby sewage treatment plants. (01/08/2011) |
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Daily News "'Green' median project undertaken between North and South Conduit Aves. to take strain off sewers" The 13,000-square-foot site will be transformed into a natural water filter in an effort to keep stormwater and rainwater from overwhelming the sewer system, according to officials from the city Department of Environmental Protection. (01/07/2011) |
