Deputy Commissioner of Wastewater Treatment, Pam Elardo, explains the projects underway to utilize organic food waste for energy production. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) completed solar photovoltaic and energy storage feasibility studies for six facilities.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)'s Bureau of Sustainability has launched the New York City Water Challenge to Universities, engaging six participating colleges to work to reduce their campus-wide average water consumption by five percent.
Heavy rains during the wettest August in 90 years of water supply records has overfilled the reservoir system, such that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been making large releases of water to downstream rivers.