The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has prepared this Jamaica Bay and CSO Tributaries Waterbody/Watershed (WB/WS) Facility Plan Report as required by the Administrative Order on Consent between the DEP and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
The Demand Management Program is critical towards reducing water consumption and improving water efficiency across New York City. This report will take a deeper dive into the holistic nature of One Water and highlight example projects that encompasses its core values.
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has a longstanding commitment to managing stormwater. This is a brief progress report on this ongoing work.
This report highlights how DEP’s teams of skilled engineers, scientists, and other experts are exploring techniques and technologies to better manage current and future challenges and protect and improve the health, environment, and the quality of life for all New Yorkers
Experts have added new substances to the list of emerging contaminants over the past decade, prompting DEP scientists to begin a new study in 2019 focusing on more than 140 materials, the vast majority of which were not detected in our reservoirs or the stream, creeks and rivers that feed them.
The 2021 Progress Report on the 2018 Strategic Plan provides an overview of DEP’s progress on the 43 specific initiatives outlined in the Strategic Plan and provides accountability to our ratepayers and other stakeholders.
Experts have added new substances to the list of emerging contaminants over the past decade, prompting DEP scientists to begin a new study in 2019 focusing on more than 140 materials, the vast majority of which were not detected in our reservoirs or the stream, creeks and rivers that feed them.
As an enhancement and modification of the two-year cycle of surveying the City’s coastal waters under the Shoreline Survey Program, a Sentinel Monitoring Program was designed, with NYSDEC, to monitor specific sampling areas for fecal coliform (a raw sewage indicator) in water bodies throughout NYC.
As an enhancement and modification of the two-year cycle of surveying the City’s coastal waters under the Shoreline Survey Program, a Sentinel Monitoring Program was designed, with NYSDEC, to monitor specific sampling areas for fecal coliform (a raw sewage indicator) in water bodies throughout NYC.