Published in the June 26, 2008 Edition
The DEP Strikes Again
An annoying tendency regarding the filtration plant project is that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is inclined not to listen to the ratepayers and citizens who are funding all of this.
Concerned residents, some of whom have become experts on the issue, turn up at hearing after hearing and tell the DEP important things.
Agency officials don’t really listen; they just “explain” why they’re right, as if all it would take for the community to agree is to have it explained in words we poor foolish citizens can understand.
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Reservoir Blasting Plan Bashed
by ALEX KRATZ
NORWOOD NEWS, June 26, 2008
Local residents came out in force last week to vigorously oppose a city plan to blast away rock with explosives at the Jerome Park Reservoir.
The controversial plan is the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) contentious Croton Water Filtration Plant project currently under way in Van Cortlandt Park. The project has been plagued by massive cost overruns, federal fines, construction delays and contractor turnover.
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Watch BronxTalk on Cablevision Channel 67
Live on Monday May 18, 2007 (call in number 718-960-7150)
GREG LOBO JOST - University Neighborhood Housing Program
HAROLD SHULTZ - Sr. Fellow, Citizen Housing and Planning Council
BronxTalk is aired live on Bronxnet’s channel 67 tonight at 9.
Repeated each day through the week at 9:30am, 3:30pm, and 9pm
BronxTalk is The Bronx’ flagship talk show and has been hosted by Gary Axelbank and produced by Jane Folloro for nearly 14 years.
Here are the replay times… channel 67
Tuesdays at 3:30 am, 3:30 pm, 9:00 pm
Wednesdays at 4:30 am, 7:00 am, 9:30 am, 3:30 pm, 5:00 pm, 9:00 pm
Thursdays at 4:30 am, 3:30 pm, 9:00 pm
Fridays at 1:30 am, 4:30 am, 7:00 am, 9:30 am, 3:30 pm, 9:00 pm
Saturdays at 1:30 am, 3:30 am, 11:30 am, 3:30 pm, 10:00 pm, 11:30 pm
Sundays at 11:30 am
Mondays at 4:30 am, 9:30 am, 3:30 pm
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A SPENDING TSUNAMI FOR ONE CITY AGENCY
NORWOOD NEWS, May 1, 2008, OP-ED: Greg Lobo Jost, University Heights Neighborhood Housing Program, This OP ED has good information for your testimony for the Water Board meetings.
. . . . thanks to a stipulation known as the “rental payment,” the more DEP spends, the more rate payers actually subsidize city coffers (this year it will be to the tune of $77 million)!. . . . This month we began to learn the truth: The real reason behind the massive increases is not the deadbeat factor but rather DEP’s unchecked spending. . . . . To learn more about this issue and ways you can take action, visit www.unhp.org and click on the link regarding water rate reform.
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