The New York State Department of Health orders NYC to construct a filtration plant for the Catskill/Delaware watershed, a project which would cost the city $8 billion.
The EPA requires the NYCDEP to filter Croton Watershed in order to comply with Surface Water Treatment Rule
The EPA issues first Filtration Avoidance Determination to NYC for Cat/Del waters, followed by FAD renewals in 1997, 2002, 2007, 2017
New York City Watershed Memorandum of Agreement by NYC, New York State, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and all of the towns, villages and counties across the 1,600-square-mile watershed that supplies unfiltered drinking water from the Catskill Mountains to 10 million consumers in NYC and the Hudson Valley.
Riverkeeper and a coalition of environmental and fishing groups sue New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection for polluting the Lower Esopus Creek, a once-pristine trout stream in the Catskills section of the NYC watershed, in violation of the Clean Water Act.
“We write to express our concern that your agency may authorize New York City to use the Chelsea Pump Station to supplement its water supply. We believe that such an action would violate a 1990 federal court order, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the State Environmental Quality Review Act
The construction of the Croton filtration plant begins.
The U.S. Supreme Court declines NYC’s appeal in the Esopus Creek case, a victory for Riverkeeper and the NYC watershed.
Founded in 2007, the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership is an inter-municipal coalition in Ulster County in Upstate New York: Town of Saugerties, Town of Ulster, Town of Hurley, Town of Marbletown, Town of Olive, City of Kingston, and the Village of Saugerties.
This month, the New York State Appellate Division, Third Department (PDF 220 KB) handed down another victory for Riverkeeper in our decade-long battle to save Esopus Creek, a renowned trout stream in the heart of the Catskills.
The Ashokan Release Working Group (ARWG), which consists of DEP, state and federal regulators, and local stakeholders including Ulster County, towns and villages and non-profit organizations.
http://www.loweresopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Lower-Esopus-Creek-book.pdf
Ulster County Executive Michael Hein’s office released an Issue Brief which outlines the County Executive’s position on NYC DEP’s pollution of the Lower Esopus. The Brief provides a helpful summary of the turbidity issue and a course of action to correct the issue
Riverkeeper was part of a historic meeting where the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that it has ended the release of turbid water into the Esopus two weeks ahead of the initial plan and are now discharging 1
The Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway today announced that DEP will begin releasing water from Ashokan Reservoir tomorrow to provide environmental, recreational and economic benefits to the lower Esopus Creek
In the Hudson Valley, we witnessed firsthand the havoc caused by this storm, which includes flooded main streets from Westchester to Schoharie Counties, thousands of homes without power, and waterlogged fields, drowning out crops at what is traditionally the most productive point of the growing season.
Lee would break records in the Susquehanna River basin just as Irene had broken records in the Schoharie and Mohawk.
In a joint petition submitted today, Ulster County and Riverkeeper took steps to require the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to obtain a permit that would limit the release of turbid water into the Lower Esopus Creek from the Ashokan Reservoir
Riverkeeper, the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership, more than five municipalities, the Ulster County planner, and other partner stakeholders have submitted comments and recommendations to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) responding to DEC’s and New York City Department of Environmental...
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Water for the Future Program: Delaware Aqueduct Rondout-West Branch Tunnel Repair.
By Mireya Navarro
(White Plains, NY – July 17, 2012) – Riverkeeper filed comments yesterday that call on the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to revise its proposed consent order with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) because, as currently drafted, it condemns the Lower Esopus Creek to a future...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its decision requiring the Lower Esopus Creek to be included on New York State’s impaired waters list, disapproving the State’s previous determination to exclude it.
New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy on October 29–30, 2012, particularly New York City, its suburbs, and Long Island.
New York City was dumping water Monday from the Schoharie Reservoir and other reservoirs in its Catskill drinking water system as Superstorm Sandy headed toward land.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today notified the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that it must include the Lower Esopus Creek on its 2012 List of Impaired Waters.
Riverkeeper today released a multi-year study evaluating New York’s unfiltered drinking water supply
the New York State Department of Health (DOH) released draft revisions to New York City’s Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD), outlining measures necessary to protect the Catskill Mountain source of the unfiltered drinking water that nine million residents of New York City and Ulster, Orange, Putnam, and...
Days after the New York State Department of Health released a draft “Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD)” that allows New York City to continue dumping turbid water from its reservoir system into Lower Esopus Creek, Riverkeeper has learned that two key provisions, designed to protect the Lower Esopus from such...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a final Consent Order settling its 2011 enforcement action against New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in part for DEP’s unauthorized discharges of turbid, muddy water from its Ashokan Reservoir to the Lower Esopus...
Event info In submitting comments on the Department of Health’s (DOH) draft revisions to the 2007 Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) for New York City (NYC) drinking water, Riverkeeper recognizes significant improvements while calling for DOH to address several major deficiencies, including the need to evaluate...
The state Department of Conservation is defending its decision to review muddy water releases from New York City’s Ashokan Reservoir separately from a filtration waiver for the city, arguing it would give the state agency more control over turbid water being sent from the reservoir into the Lower Esopus Creek.
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/catalumdraftscopeeis.pdf
Event infoThe state Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled four public information sessions regarding environmental reviews New York City must conduct when evaluating damage from discharging highly turbid water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the Lower Esopus Creek in Ulster County.
“Releases that are made to meet the CSSO curve are made from the west basin,” she said. “For DEP and DEC to characterize them as (flood) mitigation releases is rewriting history
New York State is initiating the first-ever study of the environmental impacts of New York City’s discharges of muddy water to the Lower Esopus Creek, and we must ensure that the study—and its analysis of alternatives to those discharges—is comprehensive.
The public is invited to attend a Community Forum and Workshop on actions that citizens can take to ensure that there is a full study of the impacts of discharging turbid (muddy) water to the Lower Esopus Creek from the Ashokan Reservoir.
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The Croton filtration plant is completed with a capacity of 320 MGD and at a cost of $3.2 billion
The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued the final scope of review for the study that will examine the impacts of New York City’s high-volume, muddy discharges from the Ashokan Reservoir to the Lower Esopus Creek.
New York City operates one of only five major unfiltered water supply systems in the country by protecting the water at its source in the Catskill Mountains. (The others are Boston, Portland, Ore., San Francisco, and Seattle
Order on Consent (“Catalum Order”), (DEC Case #D007-0001 -11 , Appendix A , VI. Environmental Review and Application to Modify Permit Modification Request
DEP has monitored two leaking sections of the Delaware Aqueduct—one in Newburgh, and the other in the Ulster County town of Wawarsing—since the early 1990s. The leaks release an estimated 20 million gallons per day, about 95 percent of that escaping the tunnel through the leak near the Hudson River in Newburgh
A review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program, released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says the program has been largely successful in maintaining and enhancing water quality for New York City’s drinking water since its inception in 1997.
http://www.hudson7.org/uploads/1/3/5/1/135119184/catalumnotices.pdf
On Christmas Day 2020 a warm front produced significant rain that fell on a thick snowpack in the Ashokan Reservoir watershed. Heavy rain- fall combined with rapid snowmelt is a recipe for riverine flooding. In fact, such “rain on snow” events are one of the primary causes of flooding in the Ashokan watershed.
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