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Continue reading →: Mehul Patel Appointed to Water Board
WaterWatchNYC wishes to congratulate Mehul Patel, Vice President of Moynihan Station Development Corp., on his recent appointment to the Water Board. We wish him much luck and hope that he has the courage to stand up for what’s right.
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Continue reading →: Shakeup at the Water Board
While the mayor has said that he would renegotiate the rental agreement with the Water Board, the current fiscal crisis facing the city is making that scenario seem quite unlikely. This means that the Water Board is going to continue paying the city exorbitant fees for the use of the…
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Continue reading →: New Acting DEP Commissioner Appointed
The DEP’s Deputy Commissioner, Steve Lawitts (who, if you remember, was biking through Amsterdam when former Commissioner Emily Lloyd announced her resignation), has been appointed Acting Commissioner of the DEP. He previously worked for the Department of Sanitation and currently retains his post as Executive Director of the Water Board.…
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Continue reading →: The Water Board’s Not-So-Public Notice
On September 29th, the Water Board released a public notice regarding the extension of frontage. Any recent visit to the Water Board website and you’re bound to find this public notice, right? Wrong! This new public notice is secreted away with nearly a dozen other obscure public notices. The is…
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Continue reading →: DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd Resigns
I just returned from a Water Board meeting where I received independent corroboration of a tip that I received on Wednesday: Emily Lloyd, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, has indeed resigned. Lloyd became DEP Commissioner back in 2005. Prior to that she had been Commissioner of the Department…
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Continue reading →: Continuing Coverage of Tripp’s Resignation
I recently received a phone call from a reliable source in the City Council. This source enlightened me regarding various factors that were not initially evident that have contributed to the resignation of former Water Board Chairman Jim Tripp. I was told that the timeline of events did not occur…
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Continue reading →: Why the City Loves Frontage
Frontage billing is the enemy of anyone who cares about conservation or the environment. Charging people a fixed amount for water, regardless of how much of it they use, encourages waste and an indifference to the need to conserve. With this in mind, why is the city reinstating frontage billing?…
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Continue reading →: A Closer Look at the Resignation of Jim Tripp
Any New Yorker who has ever gotten a traffic ticket while Mike Bloomberg has been in office likely knows about Bloomberg’s brilliant ideas to increase the city’s income without raising taxes. For many years, one of the city’s greatest sources of income has been their lease agreement with the Water…
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Continue reading →: The Uncertain Future of Frontage
Back in June, the DEP announced that fiscal year 2009 would be the last year of frontage billing. Since that time, neither the DEP nor the Water Board has done anything to inform the public about how this will play out. This left us in the water industry puzzled. Was…
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