Tag: DEP

(Will) Will the structure for releasing water from the Schoharie Reservoir into the Schoharie Creek spell disaster for the Esopus ...

A flurry of high-volume water releases from the Ashokan Reservoir into the lower Esopus Creek caused the closing of the Marbletown ...

Dean Gitter After 16 contentious years, the long-proposed Belleayre Resort project is getting its state permits and could be moving ...

Stony Cove Creek Flood preparedness has been and will continue to be front and center for the Town of Shandaken, ...

Yankeetown Pond (photo by Dion Ogust) The Woodstock Town Board voted 3-2 to recommend a compromise allowing limited hunting on ...

Rendering of proposed Discovery Lodge. Is the $400 million Belleayre Resort and adjoining high-stakes full build out of state-owned Belleayre ...

Environmentalists say the creek’s ecosystem has been disrupted by the releases The environmental group Riverkeeper is engaging Saugerties residents in ...

Drinking water exploration has impacted residents of Plains Road. (photo by Lauren Thomas) Neighbors on Plains Road met with New ...

Yankeetown Pond (photo by Dion Ogust) An oversight allowing hunting and trapping on New York City-owned lands in Woodstock prompted ...

Drilling rigs on Route 299 West in New Paltz. The work is part of the DEP’s search for drinking water. ...

Readings of water depth on the lower Esopus Creek at the new Lomontville gage, from the USGS website. With recent ...

Talks continued last week about how New Paltz will find an alternate water supply in 2016 during a ten-week shutoff ...

(Photo by Lauren Thomas) Drinking water and how to get it has become an urgent issue in New Paltz, which ...

Kathy Nolan Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley has asked the officials of the Coalition of Watershed Towns (CWT) to back him ...

Find another way to deal with turbidity and stop sending chocolate-colored water — for the most part — down the ...

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has withdrawn its participation in the proposed Phoenicia sewer project, rejecting ...

Ulster County residents want New York City to spend more money locally on dealing with flooding and muddy water, and ...

The “Bowl of Doom” is a nickname given by local water scientists to an area on a curved bank of ...

Interested in the Esopus Creek turbidity issue? Drop by a public informational meeting this Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. ...