The Feasibility Study for the Pedestrian Bridge Report is below from a link on the CB 8 web page under the Croton Water Treatment Plant, Van Cortlandt Park, Pedestrian Bridge Feasibility Study
Van Cortlandt Park Pedestrian Bridge Feasibility Study Part 1
Van Cortlandt Park Pedestrian Bridge Feasibility Study Part 2
As part of the 2003 State Legislation (Chapter 175 of the Laws of 2003, Assembly 8069C and Senate 4791C) that was passed, the city and the state entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was signed by the Mayor, and the Assembly and Senate Leaders, and approved by the NY City Council in 2004.
A 8069 C is the bill A8069C
A8069C with highlights and shortened A8069C with highlights
A8069C votes or the HONOR ROLL Assembly Vote 8069
2004 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) including Project List as required by Chapter 175
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1999 ULURP Resolution and List of Projects
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Mosholu-Mitigation-Res-993-of-1999
Letter sent to City Council with Excel List of Projects
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New Yorkers will pay price for Croton Water Treatment Plant cost overruns
The price tag of a new Bronx water treatment plant has skyrocketed to $3.4 billion – nearly three times what the Bloomberg administration announced when construction began in 2004, the city’s Independent Budget Office says.
The astounding cost overruns for the Croton Water Treatment Plant mean that every New York City household will end up paying, on average, $44 more in its annual water bill for the next few decades just to pay for the plant.
And although city officials keep coming up with cash for the contractors in charge of this money pit, they have yet to produce all the parks improvements they promised Bronx residents in exchange for erecting the new plant in Van Cortlandt Park.
Mayor Bloomberg promised in a 2004 memorandum of understanding with city and state leaders that the Department of Environmental Protection would earmark $200 million over a five year-period from the Croton project’s budget to pay for boroughwide park improvements.
Only $150 million of that money has been committed, Parks Department spokeswoman Vickie Karp said yesterday.
The Independent Budget Office said the city doesn’t plan to spend the rest of the $50 million until 2019.
Somehow, a five-year promise mysteriously morphed into 15 years.
“I’m so outraged at everything DEP and the city have done here,” said North Bronx neighborhood leader Jane Sokolow. “They keep trampling over a community that didn’t want this project to begin with.”
“All of the Parks [Department] Croton projects have either been built, are in construction, or are in the process of being designed or bid,” Karp insisted.
“The undertaking is a huge success and a huge win for the people of the Bronx.”
Bronx neighborhood leaders see things differently.
They always said the plant, which the city was required to build by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, could be built more cheaply in Westchester County instead of beneath Van Cortlandt Park. But the DEP’s experts insisted the Bronx site would only cost $1.2 billion.
So what went wrong?
“Initially, bidding out the work during a hyper-inflated construction market was the primary reason behind cost increases,” DEP spokesman Farrell Sklerov said yesterday in an email statement.
In 2009, then-city Controller William Thompson audited the project and found it had jumped to $2.1 billion. The original “conceptual cost estimate [by the city] was unreliable,” Thompson concluded.
In other words, the neighborhood people had been right.
Since Thompson’s audit, the plant has swallowed another billion dollars or so.
“More recently, design and construction change orders due to the complexity of the facility, and enhancements to the design and architecture of the above ground facilities all played a role in cost increases,” Sklerov added.
That’s all doublespeak, says Bronx Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, a longtime critic of the plant.
“If this was Bloomberg’s own company, he would have fired the people who screwed this up,” Dinowitz said. “But the mayor has not said a word. … Someone needs to take responsibility for such huge waste.”
jgonzalez@nydailynews.com
This was passed by the City Council on September 28, 2004 – Communication from the Mayor ….. transmitting the memorandum of
understanding entered into pursuant to chapter 175 of the laws of 2003 in connection with the Croton water filtration facility and the funding of certain eligible projects in the borough of the Bronx.
MOU also references the one and only ULURP on this project passed in 1999.
Here we are in October 2011 and the DEP has admitted that of the $200 million in the MOU and the $43 million in the ULURP has been frozen.
Notes about what’s in the FSEIS .…………… CWTP Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm
Notes from the WM11 CWTP Monthly Report 79 from April 2011. Here is 14 pages excerpted and I have two full reports form April 2011 and August 2010.
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.………the DEP does it again! Read the story from the NY Times today! See EPA web page below …..
A yearlong investigation of the Gowanus Canal in preparation for its cleanup under the federal Superfund program has confirmed the severe extent of its contamination and the threat it poses to public health, particularly for people who eat fish from the canal or have repeated contact with its water or sediment.
And here is the full report from the EPA including fact sheets and public meetings. http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/gowanus/
Found this while looking through some old boxes of information I accumulated throughout the years. Still very on point even though it is about six years ago.
Water, Soil, & The Spirit of Place
And for all you who do not have flash (apple people), here it is in pdf form:
The Missouri Decision is a good EPA roadmap for the State’s role in adopting water quality standards.
This is really unbelievable!
Lecture on Ethics in the Workplace by using the environment, sustainability and other questions looking into the future.