"Nora", the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Delaware Aqueduct Bypass Tunnel, is being assembled 854 feet below ground in Newburgh, New York. A new covered soccer field for the FC Harlem Lions, a Harlem-based nonprofit youth development organization, will be built on property of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) adjacent to the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant. DEP joined representatives from NYC Parks and the City Council to cut the ribbon on the newly constructed Seabury Park. DEP has opened access this year to 1,038 additional acres of water supply land for low-impact recreation.
Reports on the development, progress and achievements of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's source water protection programs established to maintain the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) for the Catskill/Delaware portion of the New York City water supply.
Releases from the Pepacton Reservoir into the East Branch Delaware River will be shut down for eight hours per day from December 6 - 8 to facilitate an underwater inspection of infrastructure at the reservoir, after which releases will be returned to the rate specified in the Flexible Flow Management Program. 44 new recruits have been welcomed to the Staff Sergeant Robert H. Dietz Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Police Academy in the City of Kingston.