NYC Department of Environmental Protection
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 3:51 pm
The specific parcels involved in New York City's land-buying plans for the New York City watershed -- the subject of much debate over the past year -- have finally been announced today.
In a press release published on the NYC Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 11:23 am
A surprising detail ends this story about another watershed-related lawsuit in the Daily Freeman.
Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is suing the town of Shandaken over the town's tax assessment... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Jennifer L. Hart, a serial novelist of the Harlequin variety, just penned a romance novel set in "rural upstate New York along the Delaware River," and it sounds steamy.
Here's the dust jacket blurb for River Rats, as she's calling it:
Set in rural... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 9:58 pm
The DEP's spidey senses just got a whole lot keener. The agency is opening a new, state-of-the-art water-testing lab in Grahamsville, and it's stocked with square footage and gadgets, according to a press release sent out today:
The project added 12,000... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 - 10:08 am
The DEP is losing patience with Phoenicia, which is still dithering about whether or not to build a wastewater treatment plant. The Daily Freeman reports that the DEP has threatened to withdraw $17.2 millions in funding from the project, and that the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the state's intermediate appeals court handed a victory to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a fight with a Windham landowner over watershed development regulations.
According to the decision,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 17, 2010 - 10:17 pm
That's what the AP says today:
The city last year signed contracts to either buy land or conservation easements on a record 11,309 acres of land around its upstate reservoirs, marking the second year-to-year gain of more than 30 percent in the 13-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010 - 10:04 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection held three meetings this week on a proposed 10-year extension of their watershed land-buying program. At a meeting on Monday in Delaware County, one of the city's main targets for buying land over... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 11:13 am
On Monday night, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's plan to buy more private land in the upstate watershed met a skeptical crowd at a public hearing at SUNY Delhi.
The Land Acquisition Program, as the DEP calls it, is the linchpin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 4:52 pm
I don't know how I missed this last week, but New York City is now selling a line of "NYC water products." That's right: Water glasses, coasters, and carafts decorated with a slogan -- "Drink NYC Water" -- that celebrates the unique and special nature of... Read more
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