Water
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 5:25 pm
Above: The Pepacton Reservoir in August 2011, before it opened for public recreational paddling. Photo by S58y, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Aaron Bennett is the consultant to the Enhanced Recreational Access Project for the upper East Branch of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:43 pm
Photo of the Pepacton Reservoir, taken near the East Delaware Tunnel on Tuesday, May 15. The photo shows yellow rubber booms surrounding the area of a small oil spill.
The source of a mysterious oil spill discovered on New York City's Pepacton Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 12:05 pm
Photo of a small tugboat and an oil spill surrounded by yellow booms on the Pepacton Reservoir. Taken on Tuesday, May 15 from Route 30, near the pump station for the East Delaware Tunnel. Photos by Lissa Harris.
The source of a small oil spill in New York... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 4:15 pm
We are writing in response to the information we have received from our town board and from other neighboring towns. We are very happy to hear that the towns of Rochester, New Paltz, Marbletown and others are working to pass zoning bans to prohibit... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 3:00 pm
The Ulster County town of Olive has a new law on the books: A one-year moratorium on all gas drilling activity, including the transportation of fracking waste, within town borders.
The law was approved unanimously by the town board at their regular... 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
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 6:00 pm
A natural-gas compressor station. Photo by Penn State Live; published to Flickr under Creative Commons license.
The Sullivan County Democrat reports today that the Millenium Pipeline Company is seeking to build a natural-gas compressor station in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 9:20 pm
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Above: The Pepacton Reservoir seen from satellite imagery. The East Delaware Aqueduct begins on the southern edge of the reservoir, a few miles east of the Downsville dam. Image via Google Maps. For a map of the New York City watershed... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Above: Water shoes, anyone? Didymo warning on a pole near the Shandaken Tunnel at the Esopus Creek. Blooms of the noxious algae already coat the bottom of the creek. Photo by Daniel Case on Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons license.
It's been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 - 9:33 am
There's snow on the high peaks this morning, and we've got the photos to prove it. Above is the scene outside WP headquarters in New Kingston around 7:30am. (Our poor peas and garlic shoots!)
Do you have a photo of the year's first snow? Share it with us... Read more
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