NYC Department of Environmental Protection
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 9:02 pm
A rendering of the DEP's plans for a three-mile bypass to the Delaware Aqueduct. Image provided by NYC DEP.
Tonight, New York City Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway told a group of Wawarsing residents that their chronically-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 10:03 am
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports the latest in Wawarsing's years-long saga with the leaky Delaware Aqueduct. Tonight, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's commissioner, Cas Holloway, will meet face-to-face with the town's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:15 pm
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 2:20 pm
The photo above bears more than a passing resemblance to the Meeting of the Waters, the famous spot in the Brazilian Amazon where the muddy "white" water of the Solimoes flows into the "black" water of the Rio Negro. But no: It's the Lower Esopus Creek,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 2:46 pm
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 9:54 am
An unworldly photo of a rainbow over the Ashokan reservoir, taken by NYC DEP intern Cailee Nicole.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is planning to drain the Ashokan Reservoir of about 450 million gallons per day for the next few... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 - 2:46 pm
We were hoping yesterday's widespread flooding didn't claim any lives, but it seems that's not the case.
A body of a woman was found around noon today in the Neversink reservoir, said Zone Sergeant James Rafferty out of the State Police barracks in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
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... Read more
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