Date: 11/2/2005 10:59:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
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"Environmental News" November 2, 2005
New York City Offers Fall/Winter Interpretive Hikes
DEP will offer interpretive hikes at New York City watershed recreation areas on the first 
Saturday of each month during the fall and winter seasons. DEP staff will lead the hikes and travel will be on foot, snowshoe, or cross-country ski as conditions allow. In the past, summer hikes have been popular, giving people the opportunity to learn more about the recreation areas and the City does to protect the watershed. Hikers who have valid Access Permits are invited to participate. Access Permits are free, last for five years and are easy to obtain. For information on obtaining an Access Permit and other recreation opportunities, visit the official Water Supply Watersheds website at www.nyc.gov/watershedrecreation or call DEP Land Management toll-free at 1-800-575-LAND (5263). More
Construction of City Tunnel No. 3 Approaches Milestones Ensuring Improved Water Delivery and Quality For New Yorkers
Progress is being made on Tunnel No. 3 construction, and in particular, on the Manhattan section that runs from the far west side of Manhattan to the Holland Tunnel and curves around north to the lower east side. Construction of the Manhattan leg of the tunnel began in October 2003. Tunnel No. 3 is one of the largest and most complex capital construction projects in New York City history and has often been referred to as one of the world�s engineering marvels. Since 1998 and the completion of Stage 1 of the Tunnel, it has been delivering water through the Bronx, down Manhattan across Central Park and into Astoria Queens. By 2009 the Brooklyn/Queens leg will be activated, and it is expected that the lower Manhattan portion will begin delivering water by 2012. The capacity of these three legs will provide drinking water from Tunnel No. 3 to parts of all of the City�s five boroughs, forming a firm backup to the water supply system. When the tunnel is completed in 2020, it will ensure the dependability of the City�s drinking water supply well into the next Century. More
Public Advisory Concerning Schoharie Reservoir
DEP has a long standing commitment to upgrading its dams to modern design criteria. We have initiated a comprehensive program over the past few years to assess the condition of dams at City-owned reservoirs in the Catskill/Delaware watershed and to undertake repairs and rehabilitation required by our investigations. (This is similar to a program initiated by DEP in the mid-1980s to assess and rehabilitate City-owned dams located in the east of Hudson watershed.) As part of its system-wide dam rehabilitation program, DEP has been conducting field investigations at the Gilboa Dam at the Schoharie Reservoir. A full rehabilitation of the Dam is slated to begin in 2010. More
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