New York City is under fire for sometimes releasing massive amounts of water a day from a key reservoir in the Catskill Mountains.
is under fire for sometimes releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day from a key reservoir in the Catskill Mountains.
The tensions between upstate residents and the city of 8.8 million people to the south touch on how the largest unfiltered water supply in the country will operate in an expected stormier future. Opponents pushing for changes to the water releases got a boost recently when state regulators told the city to take a deeper look at their effects.City officials say they’re trying to strike the difficult balance of responding to downstream concerns while delivering quality water.
The current controversy revolves around interim rules that allow large water releases — up to 600 million gallons a day — from the Ashokan through a channel that links to the lower Esopus.Largely dormant until 2006, the channel helps regulate reservoir levels to mitigate flooding downstream, such as when big storms hit. The channel also has been used to get rid of water that is turbid — that is, cloudy with suspended particles — before it heads south to city faucets.
The city says larger Ashokan releases over the past decade have all been to regulate reservoir levels, though critics say the water released after storms can be turbid just the same. Locals fear major releases will become more common as extreme storms increase. They point to the large storm and snow melt in December 2020 that preceded major releases over several months during which the lower Esopus often ran brown. Seven municipalities that draw drinking water from the Hudson River said those releases taxed their water filtration systems.
"The 2020 storm hit and it contradicted their projections," said Mary McNamara of the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership. "That’s why people say their climate change projections are not aggressive enough."State environmental regulators cited the storm in telling the city this year to perform a supplemental environmental analysis.
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