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Continue reading →: Frontage is Dead — Long Live the MCP Program
To be honest I never believed that the DEP would eliminate frontage.
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Continue reading →: Winners & Losers – Proposed NYC 2012 Water Rate Schedule
Properties with one bathroom per apartment and low consumption toilets (senior housing) will see their rates increase by up to $150 per unit.
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Continue reading →: Proposed 2012 Water And Sewer Rates
Frontage Billing will cease to exist after June 31, 2012.
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Continue reading →: DEP and Water Board Agree: Revenue Good (But What’s Conservation?)
Gone are the days of saving water and taxpayer money. The future is all about increased sales and maximum revenue: consumption, not conservation.
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #6: Reduce Spending and Debt
While it’s true that most (if not all) of our Ten Ways to Save the DEP, point to the reduction of spending and debt in one way or another, they have all really been about other things. For example, we talked about stormwater rates, which would raise more money and…
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #5: Fix the Delaware Aqueduct
The Delaware Aqueduct issue is one that has been covered before on this blog. Simply put, there is a leak in the 85-mile long Delaware Aqueduct which transports water from some of our upstate reservoirs to New York City. The aqueduct carries about half of our water from our various…
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #4: Automate the Permit Process
As anyone who has ever taken out a DEP permit knows, it’s a long and arduous task. You have to fill out a form, go to the borough office, hand the form in and then wait. If you’ve gone to an efficient borough office you’ll wait in the office for…
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #3: Stop Using the Water Board to Bypass Contract Bidding
Like every government agency, every so often the DEP needs to outsource some of its work. They need studies done to determine the efficiency of their procedures or they need construction done on new or existing facilities. The fact that some of their work is outsourced actually should benefit the…
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #2: Introduce Stormwater Fees
Almost any effective CSO mitigation plan that the city can possibly come up with will involve the creation of large multi-billion dollar retaining tanks and force our water/sewer rates to skyrocket. So here comes our out of the box thinking: How can we mitigate the negative effects of CSO without…
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Continue reading →: Ten Ways to Save the DEP – #1: Better CSO Notification Procedures
Like most older sewage systems, New York City’s sewage system is what’s known as a “combined sewer system.” This means that the system was never built to accommodate clean rainwater and dirty wastewater separately and therefore, when it rains, the clean rainwater is dumped into the sewer outfalls together with…
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I’m Hershel
As President of Ashokan Water Services, Hershel has spent the last twenty years coordinating water conservation efforts for over 8,500 New York properties. In response to the North East droughts in the 1980’s, he formed Ashokan with a team of plumbers and engineers. Today Ashokan is a full-service water management company specializing in utility auditing, meter installation, meter reading, water conservation, backflow installation, and testing. Hershel focuses on managing Ashokan’s strategic planning and innovation process.
Hershel currently resides with his family in Brooklyn, New York, is an avid kayaker, and is an active blogger on water issues. He serves on The NYC Sustainability Advisory Board, the Mayor’s Green Codes Task Force, and many more. His personal goal is to minimize the effects of CSO and stormwater runoff within the Hudson River Estuary in order to create a positive impact on New York City’s environment.
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