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Mid-Hudson News "DEP approves 50th agricultural project allowing farmers’ use of watershed lands " CATSKILLS – The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has added 25 new agricultural use projects in 2010, doubling in one year the number of such projects in the Catskill-Delaware watershed. The DEP allows agricultural uses of New York City-owned watershed lands that are compatible with water quality protection. (12/20/2010) |
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Wall Steet Journal "The Sludgy Pulse of New York " What does a sewage-treatment plant have to do with the holidays? Just about everything, when you stop to think about it, not that I'm advocating you do. However, my desire to visit the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant Friday morning was unconnected to the season. (12/13/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "Big Apple acquires another 4,100 acres in Watershed" CATSKILLS – New York City has purchased another 4,125 acres of land and easements in the watershed region of the Catskills for more than $16 million. The purchase is the latest in its efforts to protect the watershed and maintain its quality of drinking water. (11/24/2010) |
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YNN (Video) "New tunnel could be answer for aqueduct" Warwarsing residents have been dealing with flooding issues for quite some time. That's because of a 500 foot stretch of cracks in the aqueduct under Ulster County. As our Lori Chung reports, a new tunnel could be the answer. (11/22/2010) |
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New York Times "Bypass Planned for Leaky New York Aqueduct" New York City plans to build a three-mile-long tunnel to divert water from a leaking aqueduct that carries from the Catskills about half of the city’s drinking water, officials announced on Friday. Designed to last a century, the Delaware Aqueduct’s Rondout-West Branch tunnel had leaks a few decades after completion. The tunnel, to be built under the Hudson River and parts of Dutchess and Orange Counties, will address a problem that has daunted the city since leaks were first discovered in the Delaware Aqueduct in 1988: some 15 million to 35 million gallons of water, coming down from the Catskills, have been escaping daily through cracks. (11/20/2010) |
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New York Times "New York Harbor, Then and Now" To mark the 2009 centennial of the water surveys, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection just released a report, “New York Harbor Survey Program: Celebrating 100 years,” detailing the history of wastewater treatment and efforts to improve the harbor’s health. (The report was published a year after the actual centennial because data collected in a given year is not analyzed until the following one.) (11/10/2010) |
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New York Times "Turn Piles of Waste Into Piles of Cash, City Asks" Except when visualizing alligators in the sewers and lost fishbowl pets, New Yorkers rarely think about what happens to the stuff that drains from sinks and toilet bowls. But 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater go down the tubes every day, where it begins a long and expensive process before it is buried and forgotten. The city Department of Environmental Protection is looking for a vendor who will turn piles of waste — 1,200 wet tons of biosolids every day — into useful materials and energy, such as fuel and power production. (11/5/2010) |
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New York Times "RE: Rebuilding Our Aging Water Systems - Letters To the Editor" NYC Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway responds to Bob Herbert's “The Corrosion of America” (column, Oct. 26), about the deterioration of the country’s water systems (10/27/2010) |
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The Wall Street Journal "Secrets of ‘Brooklynizing’: How to Replicate NYC’s Tap Water" It took six months of tinkering with a water-filtration system before a team of entrepreneurs in Florida believed they had successfully recreated New York City’s distinctive tap water. Howard Sackel, an engineer from New Jersey, was part of the team that developed the so-called “Brooklynizing” technology used by Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. (10/26/2010) |
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Philadelphia Inquirer "Let the water flow" Officials from four states and New York City who for more than half a century have navigated an uneasy peace over who gets to use the Delaware River's water may soon have a new tool. It's a $5.2 million software program that New York City officials said would allow for better management of three gigantic water supply reservoirs in the upper Delaware watershed. The program could allow more water to be released into the river, which advocates have long sought. (10/25/2010) |
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Sun Sentinel "Secret to NYC drinking water at the center of South Florida lawsuits" Some New Yorkers swear the secret to their city's great bagels and pizza is the water used in the dough — water that flows from clear reservoirs upstate right to their faucets. It's a belief that now has two Palm Beach County restaurants locked in a legal battle involving technology they claim can make water out of the tap here in South Florida taste like New York City drinking water (10/24/2010) |
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Queens Courier "DEP Hopes Oysters Clear Bay" The city started a new battle plan against the pollution in Jamaica Bay last week that using the smallest of aquatic soldiers. The city Department of Environmental Protection began a new pilot program that reintroduced oysters and reefs into the environmentally sensitive ecosystem. (10/14/2010) |
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Waterwire "GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO CLEAN THE WATER AND GREEN THE CITY " Look for New Porous Pavement, Planted Roofs, Enlarged Tree Pits, Even Rain Barrels.Between bouts of intense rain that caused sewage overflows into city waters in mid September and early October, Dept. of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway and Mayor Michael Bloomberg got together on September 28 and announced a plan for new infrastructure – some high tech, some quite simple – that will help redirect and absorb stormwater runoff. (10/13/2010) |
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Portland Water Bureau "Water agency in New York City joins Facebook" The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently launched its Facebook page, opening another avenue to highlight the amazing work done at DEP. The DEP is an agency of nearly 6,000 employees that manages and conserves the New York City's water supply, distributing more than one billion gallons of clean drinking water, and collecting and treating the 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater produced each and every day. (10/12/2010) |
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Radiolab (Listen to episode) "The Belly of the Beast" Cities, like bodies, grow and evolve. In the case of New York City, that growth never would have occurred if not for a Homeric engineering feat that occurred mostly underground. And Sandhogs Ritchie Fitzsimmons and John "Chick" Donohue give firsthand accounts of what it takes to blast a city's arteries into being. (10/08/2010) |
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The Wall Street Journal "Trash Tours: Off-Limits Waste Facilities Welcome the Curious" Dominating the local skyline with its stainless steel digester “eggs,” Newtown Creek is the largest of New York City’s 14 wastewater treatment plants. If you’ve ever contemplated the fate of your discarded leftovers or the trajectory of your toilet water, some of the tours offered this weekend as part of Open House New York can help lay your curiosity to rest. (10/08/2010) |
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Times Ledger "DEP cleanup prevents repeat of August flooding: Sanders " The Springfield Gardens streets that were deluged during powerful rainstorms more than a month ago were spared another wet cleanup over the weekend?, according to City Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton). (10/07/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Decimated by years of pollution, oysters once again find home in Jamaica Bay " Oysters left Jamaica Bay slowly, declining for decades from overharvesting and pollution, until they were just a memory. Oysters came back Tuesday - by the bagful. (10/06/2010) |
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The Huffington Post "New York City's Green Infrastructure Plan and Sustainability Management " The issue of combined sewer overflows is one of the most difficult water quality issues faced by cities with old infrastructure like New York City. (10/04/2010) |
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The New York Times "$1.5 Billion Plan Would Cut Sewage Flow Into City Waters " The Bloomberg administration wants to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next 20 years on new environmental techniques to reduce the flow of sewage into the city’s waterways. The plan, announced on Tuesday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, calls for building an infrastructure to capture and retain storm water before it reaches the sewer system and overloads it. The city would foster investments in projects like green roofs with plantings, porous pavement for parking lots, rain barrels, wetlands and depressions for collecting water in parks, for example. (09/29/2010) |
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The Daily Star "Official: Grand Gorge sewer project completed " The New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway announced the completion of a $2 million sewer extension project in the hamlet of Grand Gorge in the town of Roxbury, which is meant to help protect water quality in the Catskill watershed. (09/22/2010) |
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Queens Ledger "City allays fears of floods in SE Queens" Cas Holloway, the commissioner for the city Department of Environmental Protection, led a meeting at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield Gardens on 137th Avenue to personally hear the concerns of neighbors who were affected by the torrential Aug. 22 rains that swamped the neighborhood. (09/16/2010) |
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Staten Island Advance "New free Island water meters track consumption to the last drop" High-tech wireless water meters are going in at Staten Island homes, and customers can now check their water usage online, updated four times a day. That means no more estimated water bills, as well as real-time usage data for homeowners that could point up leaks that run up charges. (09/10/2010) |
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Water World "DEP Issues Fiscal Year 2010 State of the Department" DEP today issued its first-ever State of the Department for Fiscal Year 2010. The State of the Department gives an overview of DEP's performance during the past fiscal year by reporting key performance metrics for DEP's core functions. (09/02/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Creatures great and small coming back to park " For the first time in decades, egrets and horseshoe crabs have been spotted in the northern section of Alley Pond Park. The 16-acre spot, once clogged with construction debris and invasive plants, has been restored to its natural wetland state under a $20 million project recently completed by the city Department of Environmental Protection. (08/31/2010) |
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Times Herald Record "NYC buying upstate land for watershed protection " New York City environmental officials say they are spending $7.8 million to purchase more than 1,300 acres of land in the city's upstate watershed. The city's Department of Environmental Protection says it's buying 12 parcels of land ranging in size from a half-acre to 266 acres in Ulster, Greene, Delaware, and Westchester counties. (08/25/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "Final Shokan reservoir bridge to be upgraded " OLIVE – Work has begun on Stone Church Bridge, the last of seven nearly 100 year old bridges the City of New York’s Department of Environmental Protection has been upgrading around the perimeter of the Ashokan Reservoir in the towns of Olive and Marbletown. (08/25/2010) |
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WNYC Newsroom "Hoping for Fewer Water Disruptions, City Opens Valves on Ancient Pipe " In an effort to strengthen the reliability of the the city's water supply network, a 136-year-old cast iron water pipe, which runs underneath Madison Avenue, has been put back into service. The pipe was first laid in 1870 and had been out of service for the last 30 years. The city's Department of Environmental Protection repaired more than 10,000 feet of the old four-foot wide pipes by inserting a compressed plastic lining into it. (08/17/2010) |
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IBM Center for The Business Of Government "Commissioner Holloway Radio Interview " Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway discusses changing the way government does business, and the management challenges facing DEP. (08/17/2010) |
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Watershed Post "Contaminants, you have nowhere to hide " The DEP's spidey senses just got a whole lot keener. The agency is opening a new, state-of-the-art water-testing lab in Grahamsville, and it's stocked with square footage and gadgets, according to a press release sent out today: The project added 12,000 square feet of upgraded space to the existing 5,000 square foot facility that was built in 1964. (08/16/2010) |
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Staten Island Advance "South Shore homes hooked up to city sewer in Pleasant Plains " One hundred South Shore homes have been connected to the city's sewer system following the completion of an infrastructure project, according to Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Cas Holloway. (08/12/2010) |
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The Bronx Times "DEP Begins Dredging At Hendrix Creek " Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway today announced the start of dredging at Hendrix Creek, a 7,000-foot tributary at the northern boundary of Jamaica Bay.The $13.1 million project will remove accumulated combined sewer overflow (CSO) sediment from the upper portion of the creek to reduce odors in the surrounding community. In addition to the dredging work, DEP recently completed a $1.3 million wetland restoration project, adding 30,000 salt marsh plantings and 23,000 square feet of coastal grassland and shrubland to improve the overall water quality and ecology of the creek and Jamaica Bay. (08/10/2010) |
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle "Milestone Water Meter Connected — At Marty’s House " The city Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has now installed 50 percent of the city’s Automated Meter Reading (AMR) units. And the 417,000th such meter was installed yesterday — at Borough President Marty Markowitz’ home here. (08/09/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "Three dams in Croton Watershed rebuilt by DEP " The New York City Department of Environmental Protection, which operates the reservoirs in the Catskill, Delaware and Croton watersheds, has completed a $51 million reconstruction on three dams in the Croton Watershed. (08/06/2010) |
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The Bronx Times "Overall Ecology Of East River Improved" Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway today announced the operation of enhanced treatment measures to reduce the amount of nitrogen being discharged into the East River at the Hunts Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Bronx. (08/03/2010) |
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Bronx Times "A Morris Park kitten is safe and dry after an adventure that brought him underground and into the sewer. " Motz, a kitten belonging to Edita Pjetrovic, somehow ended up down in the sewer on Wednesday, July 21. Pjetrovic, who lives on Victor Street in Morris Park, said that over the previous weekend, she had a barbecue in her backyard and accidentally left the door open. She looked for him for three days, calling everyone, but could not find him anywhere in the area. (07/29/2010) |
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Scientific American "Fire hydrant hydration: how to cool off responsibly " When a summer heat wave engulfs New York City, people seek the soothing embrace of water in whatever way they can: they swarm the neighborhood swimming pool; they visit the beach at Coney Island; they take multiple showers. People also tap into the city's water supply through some of its most vulnerable access points: fire hydrants. Wrenching open fire hydrants to frolic in the resulting spray is a summertime custom in cities and suburbs nation-wide—with often unconsidered consequences. (07/21/2010) |
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WNYC "New York Looks to Philadelphia for Ideas on Sewer Overflow Issues " When it comes to meeting federal clean water standards, New York and other older cities like Boston and Albany are decades behind. One reason is all the human waste that’s discharged every time a storm overwhelms the capacity of 19th century combined sewer systems, which collect rain and sewage in the same pipes. Now New York is looking to another old East Coast city, Philadelphia, for new ideas. (07/15/2010) |
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The New York Times "Seeing How Much Water That 'Quick' Shower Took " Ever worry about whether you’re using too much water to tend to your urban garden? Or whether you’re washing one too many loads of clothes? Or whether the reason your water bill has spiked of late is a leak somewhere in the system?If a new city initiative works as planned, city homeowners and small businesses will be able to find out, with a click of a mouse and virtually in real time, how much water they are using four times a day, and review their payment history. (07/12/2010) |
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The Wave "Rockaway Park Eyesore To Be Demolished " The partially constructed and abandoned Rockaway Park condos adjacent to the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant will be demolished this week and turned into two storage facilities for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), it was announced last Friday.(07/09/2010) |
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WPIX "NYC Offers Water At Outdoor Public Spaces " Just before a heat wave descends upon New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that there will be a new program to create portable water stations in a number of locations around the city. (07/04/2010) |
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The New York Times "In Hunts Point, Celebrating an End to Sludge " On Wednesday, the city delivered its last shipment of sludge to the gates of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, where more than half the city’s waste had been processed. The city will save $18 million a year by ending its $34-million-a-year contract with the company and sending the waste to landfills in Virginia and Suffolk County, Department of Environmental Protection officials said. (07/01/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Smelly bane of Hunts Point, New York Organic Fertilizer Co., to permanently close down operations " Odor revoir. The New York Organic Fertilizer Co., long the smelly bane of Hunts Point and other nearby South Bronx neighborhoods, will get its final shipment of New York City sludge today, and then begin permanently closing down operations in the coming weeks. (06/30/2010) |
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Queens Courier "NY tap water is cooks secret ingredient " When it comes to drinking New York City’s tap water, Queens residents have nothing to worry about. The city placed second among all competing large cities at the American Water Works Association "Best of the Best Water Taste Test" National Contest held in Chicago. (06/29/2010) |
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The Staten Island Advance "After 2 years of work, Port Richmond sewer project hits the end zone" A sewer and water main project that will alleviate roadway flooding and sewer backups, and improve the water distribution system in Port Richmond, reached completion yesterday after two years. The $11.5 million project added storm sewers and upgraded existing ones to reduce flooding, replaced water mains and sanitary sewers, repaved the streets, and installed new catch basins and sidewalks. (06/29/2010) |
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The New York Post "Sully’s revenge — wider goose cull planned this summer" Goose hunters are casting a wider net this summer for the pesky, plane-threatening flyers.This year’s Canada goose cull will expand to a seven-mile radius around Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, up from last year’s five-mile radius. (06/17/010) |
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WNYC NEWS "City Unveils New Sewer-Cleaning Trucks That Suck " The city has unveiled two powerful new trucks that really suck — debris that is, and other sediments that can clog sewer pipes. The city is hoping to do away with having workers climb into the sewers to manually dislodge debris with shovels. (06/16/010) |
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Times Herald Record "My View: NYC is committed to fixing Delaware Aqueduct problems " The editorial "Apology is nice, fixing the leak would be better" fails to fully describe New York City's efforts to address the Delaware Aqueduct leak, and its potential impacts in the Wawarsing community. (06/11/010) |
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The Daily Freeman "NYC commissioner to meet with Wawarsing residents " DEP Commissioner Caswell Holloway has accepted his invitation meet with Wawarsing area at a location yet to be determined. Some residents have suffered flooding of homes and property believed to be cause by leaking city aqueducts connecting Upstate reservoirs to New York City. (06/05/010) |
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Brooklyn Eagle "DEP Completes Key Phase in Odor Control Upgrade at Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant " Activated Carbon Filters Will Help Reduce Odors in Neighborhood Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway announced the completion of a key phase in the odor control upgrade at Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn. (06/03/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP launches boating season at Cannonsville reservoir " The 2010 boating season on the Cannonsville Reservoir in the Deposit area was kicked off Thursday with an additional more than 1,400 acres between Cannonsville Bridge and the Cannonsville Dam added for recreational boating. (05/28/2010) |
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NY1 "Owls Head Plant Completes Odor Control Upgrade " New upgrades at a treatment plant in Brooklyn are giving nearby residents a breath of fresh air. (05/27/2010) |
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New York Post "NYC: No risk from pharmaceuticals in water " A one-year study of New York City’s upstate drinking water supply has found only extremely small traces of pharmaceuticals and personal care products that pose no public health risk. (05/27/2010) |
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Staten Island Advance "Water upgrade for Kill van Kull " Water quality in the Kill van Kull will improve as a result of yesterday’s activation of a new floodgate at the Port Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, environmental officials said. (05/20/2010) |
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NY1 "City Students Praise Water Conservation Through Arts " More than 400 local students were honored for their creativity and knowledge of water in Astoria, Queens on Thursday. (05/14/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP adds Marcellus shale feature to NYC.gov " The New York City Environmental Protection Agency, which operates the big Apple’s expansive water distribution reservoir system, Monday announced it has launched an expanded Marcellus shale web feature on DEP’s website, which outlines in detail the basis for the city’s position that natural gas drilling cannot be permitted in the upstate watersheds through a process known as hydraulic fracturing. (05/11/2010) |
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NY1 "Bronx Water Filtration Plant Nearly Complete " It’s a long journey down to the tunnels and construction of the city's first facility to filter drinking water. (05/04/2010) |
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New York Daily News "DEP commish: Frack Fight Continues " Cas Holloway, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, just called in from a road trip to Dimock, Pennsylvania to say that after touring "hydrofracking" wells in that state, he still wants New York to ban gas drilling in the city's watershed. (04/29/2010) |
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NY1 "Water Cycle Display Flows Through Brooklyn " New Yorkers interested in learning about the life cycle of the city's water supply can now head to a new visitor center in Brooklyn. The Department of Environmental Protection opened the center this weekend at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. (04/25/2010) |
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Queens Tribune "DEP Commissioner Defends Rate Hikes" Over the next several years, the DEP will invest $335 million in sewer upgrades in Queens, including $43.5 million in Whitestone and $36 million in College Point. The DEP will also conduct a flow monitoring study of Utopia Parkway in preparation for sewer upgrades. (04/22/2010) |
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New York Construction "Owner of the Year: NYC Department of Environmental Protection" It’s a New Day at the DEP. Commissioner Caswell F. Holloway is ready to lead the DEP as it takes on billions of dollars worth of work that will change New York City’s water system. (04/21/2010) |
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WNYC Newsroom "DEP Chief Defends Water Rate Hikes" Commissioner Cas Holloway says now is a time of "almost unprecedented investment" in our water system, including improvements to a filtration system in the Bronx, and the expansion of the wastewater treatment plant along Newtown Creek in Brooklyn. (04/12/2010) |
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The New York Times "Sewage Workers’ Contracts Bring Long-Delayed Raises Two unions of workers at the city’s sewage treatment plants have ratified contracts negotiated with the city last month, ending long-running disputes that included legal challenges and as long as 15 years without a cost-of-living raise. (04/11/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Summer water hike proposal down from 14.3% to 12.9% says Department of Environmental Protection New Yorkers will face a double-digit hike on their water bills in July - but the Department of Environmental Protection says it will be less than originally feared.(04/09/2010) |
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WCBS 880 (audio clip) "New Park for Staten Island" Mayor Bloomberg broke ground for the conversion of the former Brookfield Avenue landfill into a132-acre leafy green park.(04/05/2010) |
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The New York Times (The City Room) "At a Toxic Site, Shovels and a Promise of Fresh Air" Toting shovels, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and Caswell F. Holloway IV, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, promised that the Brookfield landfill site would be transformed into a 132-acre park by 2017. (04/05/2010) |
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The New York Times "Finding Natural Gas, Safely" The Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin a much-needed study of the effects on water quality and public health of a method of extracting natural gas called hydraulic fracturing. (03/28/2010) |
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The Daily Star "Reservoir to Have Boating in Summer" A new stretch of open water surrounded by breathtaking scenery will be available for recreational boating at the Cannonsville Reservoir this summer.New York City Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway announced that the additional five square miles of Cannonsville Reservoir will be open at the start of this year's boating season May 28. (03/26/2010) |
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New York Daily News "City Settles Sewage Wage Increase Deadlock, Water Rates Will Not Go Up" Last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced a series of proposed deals with workers who are members of Local 1320 of District Council 37 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3.City officials promised the agreement won't impact water rates. (03/24/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "Hein Meets with Bloomberg, Holloway, Discusses Watershed Issues" Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has presented his top three concerns about the New York City watershed to Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Caswell Holloway and later met with Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss some common issues. (03/23/2010) |
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Staten Island Advance "DEP Goes After Those with Overdue Water Bills" In an effort to prevent water service termination, the Department of Environmental Protection sent out notices yesterday to single-family homeowners with overdue water and sewer bills amounting to $58.4 million. (03/23/2010) |
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Queens Tribune "Unsightly Water Tanks Get the Boot", The Dept. of Environmental Protection will dismantle two elevated water storage tanks. (03/18/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Commish says city's plan to end contract with Hunts Point fertilizer firm will save $18M a year" Bronx officials are applauding reports that the city plans to dump its contract with a controversial sludge processor. (03/15/2010) |
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New York Times "The Gowanus Canal" Letter to the New York Times from Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway. (03/13/2010) |
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Staten Island Advance "A Place Where Dirty Water Gets Refreshed" You flush the toilet. What happens? Everything rushes to an underground pipe under the street leading to one of Staten Island’s two sewage treatment plants. (03/11/2010) |
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Wall Street Journal "Winter Blizzards Elevate Region's Flood Risk " Cities and states hit by record snowfalls last month are gearing up for expected flooding in the next few weeks, stockpiling sandbags, checking levels of area reservoirs and collecting lists of elderly residents. (03/09/2010) |
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NY1 "New Brooklyn Lab Keeps Watch Over City's Wastewater " The Department of Environmental Protection opened a new microbiology lab at a Brooklyn water treatment plant today, to help monitor and enhance the cleansing of wastewater and local waterways. (03/09/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP Releases Maximum Amount of Water Allowed to Manage Catskills Reservoirs" The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has instituted a number of procedures to deal with the unusually high amount of snowpack in the Catskill/Delaware watersheds following last week’s massive snowfalls. (03/04/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP Buys Another almost 700 Acres for Watershed Protection" The acquisition builds on New York's efforts to protect the watershed and maintain the quality of its drinking water (03/01/2010) |
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Daily Freeman "EDITORIAL: Flood of information" The Department of Environmental Protection is to be praised for giving its water system managers the scientific tools they need to balance the interests of everyone. (02/27/2010) |
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Brooklyn Courier "City Takes Aim at Water Quality in Jamaica Bay" Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city will pledge $115 million to reduce the amount of nitrogen that goes into the 31-square-mile marshland and restore some of the hundreds of acres of marshland that have been lost over the last couple of decades. (02/26/2010) |
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WaterWorld "Major water quality improvements coming to New York's Jamaica Bay" Jamaica Bay is considered the crown jewel of the city's ecological resources, with more than 25000 acres of water, marsh, meadowland, beaches.... (02/25/2010) |
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Daily Freeman "NYC Aims to Limit Reservoir-related Flooding in Region" New York City officials say a $5.2 million plan to upgrade computer management of reservoir water levels will serve as an effective flood-management tool. (02/25/2010) |
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NYC Media Video on Demand "That’s So New York: Aveda Catwalks for Water" NYC Life (Channel 25) segment showcases the partnership between Aveda and the Department of Environmental Protection to promote drinking NYC tap water during Fashion Week. (02/17/2010) |
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The New York Times "Sewer Hookup Drags Queens Hamlet Into 20th Century" Sewers have come to Meadowmere and Warnerville, two tiny neighborhoods in extreme southeast Queens. (02/17/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "Grahamsville Sewer System Connections Made" The first new connections have been made to the newly-expanded Grahamsville sewer system as part of a $5.5 million New York City Department of Environmental Protection sewer extension project that will help protect the Delaware watershed. (02/12/2010) |
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New York Post "City Declares 'Alligators in the Sewers Day'" The Big Apple's most enduring urban legend turned 75 yesterday, and a City Hall ceremony declared it Alligators in the Sewers Day. (02/10/2010) |
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NY1 "Mayor Launches Program To Freeze Water Bill Debt" Making good on a promise he made in his State of the City address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg today rolled out the first stage of what he calls "the most ambitious home foreclosure prevention effort in the nation." Bloomberg joined the Environmental Protection commissioner to launch the Water Debt Assistance Program. (02/08/2010) |
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New York Magazine "The Threats to New York City's Pristine Water Sources" New York City’s water comes from the largest unfiltered system in the country thanks to pristine sources upstate. But for how long? (02/07/2010) |
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The Daily Star "NYC DEP increases use of 'snow pillows' to track water in snowpacks" A snow pillow sounds like a cold place to nap, but it is actually a high-tech electronic device used to measure the amount of water in the snowpack surrounding New York City's reservoirs. (02/03/2010) |
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The Staten Island Advance "After 2 1/2 Years, Clove Road Water Main Project Coming to a Close" After two and a half years of construction through Sunnyside, this morning’s finish-line milestone was marked with the turn of a butterfly valve that sent water flowing once again through a 48-inch water main underneath the Silver Lake Golf Course. (02/01/2010) |
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New York Daily News "City's 14 Sewage Plants Meet Federal Clean Water Act Standards for First Time in 15 Years" New DEP Commissioner Cas Holloway said the performance will further improve once ongoing projects like the $5 billion upgrade of Brooklyn's Newtown Creek plant are completed. (01/30/2010) |
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New York Daily News "New DEP Commissioner Cas Holloway Makes Agency Changes in First Two Weeks on Job" The new head of the city Department of Environmental Protection ripped out his office walls in his first two weeks on the job. It was a sign of changes to come. (01/28/2010) |
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Queens Chronicle "DEP Gets Warm Welcome" Among the topics discussed was the department’s Rain Barrel Giveaway Program, a citywide stormwater management effort to reduce runoff. (01/28/2010) |
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Times Herald-Record "NYC Seeks More Time to Buy Watershed Land" New York City has asked the state for a 10-year extension on the permit that allows it to buy land around upstate reservoirs. (01/28/2010) |
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Saten Island Advance "Staten Island's Bluebelt Program Honored in Environmental Magazine" Staten Island's Bluebelt program has been recognized in the latest issue of the quarterly Clear Waters magazine, a New York Water Environment Association publication. (01/25/2010) |
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The Daily Star "Area Farmers Star in Films" The farmers were filmed demonstrating and describing their techniques for protecting water while raising livestock in the New York City watershed. (01/22/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP Expands Initiative to Better Measure Snowpack, Mitigate Flooding in Watershed" expanded the testing of electronic "snow pillows" first installed in 2008. (01/22/2010) |
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Brooklyn Eagle "Letter to the Editor: Supports Mayor’s Gowanus Plan" While leaving the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal to the federal Government is tempting, the timeframe for Superfund remediation, is now projected at ten years. (01/20/2010) |
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New York Public Library "Best of the Web: Environmental Organizations" DEP Web site offers information on the water supply, wastewater treatment, air and noise pollution and other issues under the jurisdiction of the department. (01/19/2010) |
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Daily Freeman "NYC Helping Locals Protect Streambanks" has launched a $3.6 million program to help stop erosion along streambanks on private properties in the city’s vast upstate watershed. Those interested in participating need to act quickly, though, because applications are due by Feb. 1. (01/16/2010) |
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New York Post "B'klyn Guy Up the Creek" A Brooklyn businessman may have flushed away his future when he connected sink and toilet pipes in three Greenpoint buildings directly into the Newtown Creek, prosecutors charged yesterday. (01/14/2010) |
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Times Herald Record "NYC Creates $3.6M Fund to Shore Up Stream Banks" DEP has created a $3.6 million fund to help landowners in the Catskill/Delaware watershed strengthen their stream banks. (01/14/2010) |
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Mid-Hudson News "DEP To Shut Down Tunnel Portion of Delaware Aqueduct to Assess Repairs" The shutdown will allow workers to install key pumping equipment necessary to ultimately repair the aqueduct. (01/13/2010) |
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Times Herald-Record "State Ban on Gas Drilling Unlikely" Critics want natural-gas drilling banned in the New York City watershed. (01/11/2010) |
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New York Daily News "Protect New York's Water" Putting New York City's water supply at risk by allowing natural gas drilling a hop, skip and a jump from the banks of upstate reservoirs. (01/11/2010) |
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New York Post "$15M Canarsie Wetlands Cleanup Plan On Track" DEP registered a $15 million contract to restore the wetlands adjacent to the DEP’s Paerdegat Basin Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) facility by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn. (01/08/2010) |
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Kingston Freeman "NYC Releasing Water from the Ashokan" DEP plans to drain 250 million gallons of water per day from the Ashokan Reservoir for the next few weeks to improve water quality and lessen the likelihood of flooding. (01/07/2010) |
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Williamsburg Courier News "City to EPA: Commit or Quit" DEP officials listed a bevy of concerns regarding the EPA’s remediation of the Newtown Creek waterway. (01/01/2010) |
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The New York Times "Hands Off the Watershed" New York City's opposition to a proposal by state regulators to allow natural gas drilling in the watershed. (01/01/2010) |
