FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE02-15
May 3,
2002
Contact: Geoff Ryan
(718) 595-6600
New
York City Department of Environmental Protection Celebrates Water Week May
4 - May 11, 2002
The quality of the water we drink and in the waterways surrounding New York
City is of vital importance for all New Yorkers. That is why the City's Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) is joining water suppliers and wastewater
treatment operators across the country in celebrating Water Week, May 4 through
May 11. DEP will sponsor visits to two of its wastewater treatment plants
during the week (see attached schedule of events) to highlight the importance
of the Agency's work in protecting and improving the quality of water in our
Harbor and its estuaries. Visitors will learn how water pollution control
plants have helped the city achieve waterways that are cleaner today than
they have been for generations.
DEP Commissioner Christopher O. Ward said, "On behalf of Mayor Bloomberg
and all of us at DEP, I am pleased to invite the public to view the improved
environment of New York Harbor as well as the advanced technology at two of
our water pollution control plants. I also want to thank the students and
teachers who participated in this year's Art & Poetry Contest, which features
our need to save water and to protect water quality in our reservoirs, as
well as the harbor. The celebration of Water Week provides people with opportunities
to learn about the water supply system and DEP's efforts to protect it, the
wastewater treatment process, and the importance of healthy waterways."
Celebrate Decades
of Clean Water at two of DEP's Wastewater Pollution Control Plants
May 6 and 7, Tallman Island Water Pollution Control Plant 127-01
Powells Cove Boulevard, College Point, Queens
Open house will be held at the Tallman Island Water Pollution
Control Plant from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Facility tours will be available and a video will be shown describing plant
operations. Reservations are required for school groups.
For a tour schedule
and more information, contact Peter Gonzales at
(718) 353-5124
May 8 and 9, Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant, 6700 Shore Road,
Brooklyn
Open house will be held at the Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Facility tours will be available and a video will be shown describing plant
operations. Reservations are required for school groups.
For tour schedule
and more information, contact John Addeo at (718) 748- 3177.
Awards for
Art and Poetry by New York City Schoolchildren; Thursday, May 9, at 1:30 p.m.
Winners and participants in DEP's 16th annual Water Conservation
Art and Poetry Contest for the City's fifth and sixth graders will be honored,
along with their families, teachers and administrators, at a ceremony in the
historic Great Hall of Cooper Union, located at 7th Street between Third and
Fourth Avenues at 1:30 PM. The winning entries of some of the City's youngest
water consumers will be on display.
Awards for
Art and Poetry by Westchester County Schoolchildren; Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m.
Winners of and participants in DEP's and Kensico Environmental Enhancement
Program's (KEEP) annual Water Conservation and Water Quality Preservation
Art and Poetry Contest for sixth and seventh graders will be honored along
with their families, teachers and administrators, at a 6 p.m. ceremony in
the Gottesman Room of the Kessel Campus Center of Pace University, located
at 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, New York.