Comments on: Water Conservation forum this Wednesday http://sustainableflatbush.org/2007/07/17/greenhome-nyc-monthly-forum-this-wednesday/ Promoting sustainable living in our Brooklyn neighborhood. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:25:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Capt. Planet http://sustainableflatbush.org/2007/07/17/greenhome-nyc-monthly-forum-this-wednesday/#comment-223 Capt. Planet Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:16:40 +0000 http://sustainableflatbush.org/?p=148#comment-223 Does everyone else get that slick little brochure from the DEP every year in the mail telling us how our water money got spent? Apparently the Feds require the DEP to do this. Well, I actually read mine this year and it was really informative. NYC DEP spending tons of our money upstate to mitigate run off from local municipalities and farms that contaminate our water supply. They've set up separate non-profit agencies just to spend the money, each charged with a specific task, like funding municipalities to upgrade their sewage treatment facilities, or training farmers how to prevent cow manure from draining into the local creek. The neatest thing I recall is a proposal to pump excess water from the NYC reservoirs (we've had above average water levels in recent years) into the aquifers under Long Island. These aquifers have been depleted from years of over-pumping. If NYC ever starts to run dry then, of course, we can pump the water back out again. With this approch, we can store excess water without building additional reservoirs, using the aquifers that nature provided. Does everyone else get that slick little brochure from the DEP every year in the mail telling us how our water money got spent? Apparently the Feds require the DEP to do this. Well, I actually read mine this year and it was really informative. NYC DEP spending tons of our money upstate to mitigate run off from local municipalities and farms that contaminate our water supply. They’ve set up separate non-profit agencies just to spend the money, each charged with a specific task, like funding municipalities to upgrade their sewage treatment facilities, or training farmers how to prevent cow manure from draining into the local creek.

The neatest thing I recall is a proposal to pump excess water from the NYC reservoirs (we’ve had above average water levels in recent years) into the aquifers under Long Island. These aquifers have been depleted from years of over-pumping. If NYC ever starts to run dry then, of course, we can pump the water back out again. With this approch, we can store excess water without building additional reservoirs, using the aquifers that nature provided.

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