Sewer infrastructure upgrades are underway in south Queens, including the installation of new interceptor sewers under the Belt Parkway and three hydraulic levees that will increase efficiency for the local network. When these projects are completed, an estimated 300 million additional gallons of wastewater per year will be diverted to the Jamaica Wastewater Treatment Plant. An enclosed receiving tank is also being constructed at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment plant as part of an experimental project with Waste Management and the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority.
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the Department of Environmental Protection's Water Resources Art and Poetry Contest, which is open to second through twelfth grade students in New York City and upstate watersheds. Work proceeds on a $30 million project to construct litter control devices along Newtown Creek. Currently four of these below-ground capture devices are being installed by the Bureau of Engineering, Design and Construction. Due to seasonally unusual warmth, robotic monitoring buoys were removed from the Ashokan Reservoir much later than typically occurs.
This report presents data from the 2013 NYC Youth Risk Behavior Survey on physical dating violence among public high school students and includes data on other risk behaviors and conditions that could adversly affect health.