Land Acquisition Program
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 Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 2:00 pm
We're sure the NYC DEP is very anxious for the public in their upstate watershed to be well-informed about what's going on with important local watershed issues, like their controversial land acquisition program.
That's probably why they put out a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 9:48 am
On the DEP's website, as of June 1: A 400-plus page Draft Environmental Impact Statement outlining proposed plans to extend New York City's program of land acquisition in its upstate watershed for another ten years. (Sorry we missed it. It might help if... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 - 1:42 pm
With a price tag of $4.75 million, that's an average of just over $4,200 an acre. From yesterday's DEP press release:
The group of properties purchased includes parcels in Greene, Ulster, Putnam, Westchester, and Delaware counties. The acquisition of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:01 pm
This just in from the DEP: The agency that polices New York City's upstate watershed will open 12,000 acres of city-owned watershed land to recreation. A total of 71,000 DEP-owned acres in the New York City watershed are now open to the public, according... Read more
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