New York Department of Environmental Conservation
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 5:45 pm
Watershed Post editor Lissa Harris is on the scene at tonight's public hearing about Belleayre Mountain Ski Center and the proposed Belleayre Resort. From the Discovery Lodge at Belleayre in Highmount, she's tweeting the public comments on the Watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 11, 2013 - 11:49 am
On Thursday, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced that it would allow boat rental businesses to store rental vessels directly on the banks of the NYC reservoirs. The policy change will make things easier for rental companies... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 3:35 pm
In his proposal for the 2012 - 2013 New York State budget, released today, Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear that he would like to transfer the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center to the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) at the close... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 8:53 am
The public comment period for the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) about hydraulic fracturing in New York State closed yesterday with more comments than any other state environmental issue ever.
New York State Department... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:38 am
Yesterday, Tuesday January 10, the Shandaken Police and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation cited 53-year-old Gerasimos Kokosis and 60-year-old Alexandros Bardis for burning a large amount of demolition debris at the site of the former... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 8:53 am
Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione.
On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 2:03 pm
Above: A map of the terrain Ryan Owens traveled through on his 6.5-mile walk from West Shokan to Denning while he was lost in the Catskills on October 28 and 29 with only a long-sleeve T-shirt and a bottle of water. To view Ryan Owens's walk in a larger... Read more
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