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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 16, 2013 - 6:14 pm
Above: One of the Catskill Mountain Railroad's Alco trains, running on the Kingston end of the old Ulster & Delaware corridor. Photo from the Catskill Mountain Railroad's Facebook page.
A rail trail deal struck last week between Ulster County and the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 - 12:50 pm
Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein looking cheerful about some DEP news, for a change. From a joint news conference held Dec. 12 in Kingston; photo courtesy of the Ulster County Executive's Office.
There's not much love lost between Ulster County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 - 12:41 pm
Above: A white-tailed deer browses at the shore of the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user Ken Ficara; published under Creative Commons license.
Local hunters, New York City wants your help: The burgeoning deer population around the Ashokan Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 - 5:10 pm
Waterfall on the Esopus Creek in Saugerties. Photo by Flickr user Sonja Stark; published under Creative Commons license.
By state government standards, it's a small document: Just 34 pages. But to Lower Esopus residents, who have been waiting a long time... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2013 - 6:50 pm
Above: A dramatic photo of Lower Esopus turbidity, submitted to the Times Herald-Record in October 2010 and republished with permission.
A long-overdue agreement governing New York City's release of turbid water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the Lower... Read more
By Julie McMahon on Monday, Sep. 16, 2013 - 10:44 am
Photo illustration. The reservoir in the background is the Pepacton in Delaware County; photo by Timothy Cox, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Since 9/11, the number of Department of Environmental Protection police officers in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 13, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Above: Sunrise over the dividing weir that separates the Ashokan Reservoir's east and west basins. Photo by Tim Cox; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
'Tis the season for road work, apparently: Next week, several construction projects will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 8:10 pm
Above: Turbid water from the Lower Esopus mixes with clearer water in the Hudson River. Photo taken by Riverkeeper in November of 2011, when turbidity in New York City's Catskill watershed and the Lower Esopus Creek was still high as a result of the Irene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 - 11:18 am
If you drive around the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware County, you quickly notice that there aren't many places to hike or stroll. That means that the grand vista of miles of New York City's drinking water is often hidden from view. (Or only glimpsed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 5:05 pm
A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many... Read more
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