Water
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 - 11:05 am
Above: New DEP commissioner Emily Lloyd and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday in the Blue Room at City Hall, where de Blasio announced the appointment of Lloyd and two other city administrators. Photo courtesy of Mayor de Blasio's office. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 - 4:31 pm
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.
A union representing about 200 watershed police working for the New York City Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 - 1:18 pm
Above: Graphic from the National Weather Service showing weather watches, warnings and advisories in upstate New York as of 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The area in pink, stretching across the southern Catskills and Hudson Valley, is under winter storm warning;... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 11:11 am
Above: Delhi firefighters filling the town's new ice rink last week. Photo from the Delhi Fire Department's Facebook page.
Rockefeller Center, eat your heart out. On Saturday, Feb. 8, the Delaware County town of Delhi will celebrate the opening of a new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 1:35 pm
A boil water advisory for Stamford that has been in effect since the weekend was lifted today, village officials announced around 11:30 a.m..
Except for the announcement, the village office was closed Wednesday due to the snow emergency.
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 10:33 am
Above: Rowboats wait for the return of sunnier weather in the Sullivan County hamlet of Kiamesha Lake. Photo taken Monday, Feb. 3 by John of Catskills Photography; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. For a larger view, click on this link to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 9:10 am
That pink swath over most of the Northeast and Midwest? That's winter storm warnings, issued for a band of snow and sleet that's moving northeastward across the nation. Source: National Weather Service.
Skies over the Catskills are dazzling blue, but by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 - 3:54 pm
Stamford is currently under a boil water advisory due to a water main break in the village that occurred on Friday evening. The break was discovered around 7 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, according to a post on the village's Facebook page.
Before the boil... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 - 11:35 am
A boil-water advisory issued Sunday, Jan. 26 for the Phoenicia Water District has been lifted, town officials in Shandaken announced Friday.
The advisory was declared last week because of the extreme cold weather, which froze underground springs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 9:39 pm
Fishing on the Pepacton Reservoir: Has that umbrella been steam-cleaned? Photo taken July 17, 2013; from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Flickr page.
In the past few years, there's been a shift of attitude at the New York City... Read more
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