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Continue reading →: Notice is Hereby Given
The DEP website recently posted information about the public hearings that the Water Board will be having concerning their proposed midyear rate hike. There will be one meeting in each of the five boroughs on either December 13 or 14. To find out the exact time and location of the…
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Continue reading →: Indiscriminate Water Board Spending
As the group that oversees the DEP, one would think that one of the major jobs of the Water Board would be to constantly audit the DEP’s $2 billion budget. Not only do they not audit the budget of the DEP, they are, as Marilyn Gelber, former DEP Commissioner and…
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Continue reading →: The Water Board’s Political Gamble
While the Water Board usually only meets five times a year, there is a second meeting scheduled for November 21, 2007, making it two meetings this month alone. In addition to the one upcoming meeting they also have five meetings tentatively scheduled for the second or third week in December…
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Continue reading →: Rate Hike AND Service Termination
The NYC Water Board met this morning to approve the midyear rate hike OR service termination. In the end they chose to do both. Here are some of the new measures the DEP now has regarding service termination: The DEP is now only required to issue a notice of termination…
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Continue reading →: New Stormwater Control Techniques Planned
On November 8, City Council Member James Gennaro will be joined by representatives of the Storm Waters Infrastructure Matters (SWIM) environmental coalition to announce the introduction of three stormwater management bills aimed at reducing the amount of raw sewage that flows into New York Harbor. “The development and implementation of…
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Continue reading →: What Lew Fidler Said
Here’s something to think about. At last week’s city council hearing (blogged about here), Brooklyn’s Lewis Fidler (Democrat, 46th district) proposed that the recent spike in water bill delinquencies could very well be related to the sub-prime lending crisis. According to Fidler, the parts of NYC known to have high…
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Continue reading →: Stand-Alone Liens vs. Tax Liens
DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd has said that her department’s ability to sell stand-alone liens against the property of delinquent customers has been its “single most effective enforcement tool” (quoted in a New York Times article dated October 7, 2007 by Anthony DePalma). About a year and a half ago the…
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Continue reading →: What You Should Do Now
Yesterday Water Watch NYC blogged about the city council meeting regarding the recent water rate hikes (read it here). The purpose of the post was not just to inform about what transpired at yesterday’s meeting but also to let you know what your best approach is in response. So what…
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Continue reading →: Rate Hikes, Liens and Service Termination
The debate over further DEP rate hikes rages on. Today, the New York City Council gathered for a hearing to discuss water bill delinquencies and collection strategies targeting delinquent customers. The meeting was jointly chaired by Democrats David Weprin of the Finance Committee and James Gennaro of the Environmental Protection…
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Continue reading →: Soaked by the 11.5% DEP Rate Hike?
Real estate professionals and homeowners in New York City are abuzz over the 11.5% increase in DEP water and sewage rates officially confirmed on May 14, 2007 and scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2007. The increase – NYC’s highest since the whopping 18.4% hike of 1992 –…
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