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By Robert Cairns on Monday, Jun. 27, 2016 - 11:36 am
Above: Delaware County Watershed Affairs Commissioner Dean Frazier delivers comments at a hearing on the renewal of New York City's Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) on Tuesday, June 21 in Delhi. Photo by Robert Cairns.
A hearing last week on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 - 2:17 pm
Above: Story Laurie, the Andes storyteller and musician Laurie McIntosh, "sprouts like a seed" with Miss Mostert's kindergarten class in Delhi in 2013 as they write a song about germination. Photo courtesy of Harvest of Songs.
A set of songs written by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - 1:02 pm
Former congressional hopeful Sean Eldridge has drawn the ire of the Catskill Watershed Corporation (CWC) with his comments about economic development in the New York City watershed.
Eldridge, a Democrat, lost the race for New York State's 19th... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 - 9:49 am
Above: The Cannonsville Reservoir in 2012. Photo by Flickr user David, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
This summer, the Catskills Outdoor Guide is partnering with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Catskill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 - 2:14 pm
Above: Georgianna Lepke of Neversink passes the CWC gavel to Michael Triolo of Stamford. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Watershed Corporation.
The board of the Catskill Watershed Corporation, a nonprofit governed mostly by elected officials from the New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 - 4:25 pm
Above: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia on September 5, 2011, a week after Irene flooding damaged the building and grounds. Photo by Flickr user fixbuffalo; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group.
Over a year and a half since the Irene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 6, 2012 - 4:18 pm
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Above: Itty-bitty Trout Creek. Source: Google Maps.
The tiny Delaware County hamlet of Trout Creek, in the town of Tompkins, will soon begin work on a community sewer system funded by the New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 8, 2012 - 3:48 pm
In a move that has angered local residents and town officials, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has walked away from the bargaining table over the building of a sewer treatment plant for the hamlet of Phoenicia.
Last month, after... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 25, 2012 - 7:58 pm
Above: Paul Rush, the Deputy Commissioner of the DEP, helps Jim Eisel, the Chair of the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, into a life preserver at the boat launch on the Pepacton Reservoir on May 24, 2012. Photo by Julia Reischel.
It's finally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:37 am
Shandaken's latest bout of dithering over a proposed Phoenicia sewer plant may have cost the town $15.8 million in New York City grant money. After years of negotiation with a reluctant town board over the Phoenicia sewer project, the Catskill Watershed... Read more
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