Ulster County Comptroller Eliot Auerbach, who blogs at the not-so-originally-named Ulster County Comptroller blog, sent up a flare of anger yesterday about this week's announcement that the DEP is buying another 1,323 acres upstate to protect is unfiltered water supply. Why, Auerbach wondered, didn't homeowners in the oft-flooded town of Wawarsing, which sits on a leak in the Delaware Aqueduct, get city payoffs?
The NYC DEP went on a “buying spree” spending $7.8 million to purchase 1323 acres of land in four counties including 74 acres in our own Ulster County.
Nice to see them try and protect their watershed and insure quality drinking water to City residents.
What happened to the leak ravaged folks in Wawarsing and the millions of gallons of “quality drinking water” that is bubbling up in their basements and yards?
