KENT MANOR HARMS THE CROTON WATERSHED

From Your New President

• Update on Granite Pointe
  by Olga Shamraj, PhD. CWCWC board member
• Executive Director’s Report
  by Oreon Sandler
• Yorktown Purchases Land for Open Space
  by Paul Moskowitz, CWCWC board member

Looking Back Over 2006
This last issue of our newsletter for 2006 is devoted to an oveview of CWCWC’S activities in the Croton Watershed. These are described by various of our directors, each representing a different member group

• A Memorable Year for CWCWC
  by Marian H. Rose - Sierra Club
• Parks Are Becoming Expendable
  by Fay Muir - Clean Water for the Bronx
• Everybody Wants A Piece of the $50M Pie
  by Oreon Sandler - Acting Executive Director CWCWC
• A Full Moon Rises Over The New Croton Reservoir
  by Carl Schwartz - NYC Friends of Clearwater
• Putting Out Brush Fires
  By Steve Kaplan - Clearwater
• Report from Yorktown
  By Paul Moskowitz
• Putnam County:
  A Case Study in Big Development Swindle
  by Ann Fanizzi - Putnam County Coalition to Preserve Open Space
• We Have Three Problems at Peach Lake
  By Suzannah Glidden - Hands Across the Border

• Lessons about Grassroots Activism from the History of the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition

• THE SELLING OF THE CROTON WATERSHED
  How "multi-barrier" protection is vanishing before the onslaught of development
• DOES YORKTOWN REALLY NEED TO EXPAND ITS
  SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

• OVER OUR HEADS IN DEP DEBT ESCALATING WATER
  AND SEWER RATES AND WHY ATTENTION NEEDS TO
  BE PAID

• An End and a Beginning Does A Sewage Diversion Victory Guarantee Safe Drinking Water?
• The New Sword of Damocles Inflow and Infiltration
• THE DONE DEAL ON DAFFy WATER TREATMENT

• The Degradation of Our Croton Reservoirs
  and How We Can Prevent It
• How the Phase II Storm Water Regulations For Small MS4s
  Can Help Croton Watershed Towns Achieve Their TMDLs

• A Community Fights Back
• An Eight-Year Battle Ends In Defeat
  

• PUTNAM COUNTY SELF- DESTRUCTS
• Politics and Pollution
  at Peach Lake:
  The Pricing Out of Long-term Residents

• Is What’s Best for the Politicians Also Best for the
  Drinking Water for 9 Million New Yorkers?

• NEW YORK CITY WATER BOARD
  RAISES WATER RATES 3% FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006
  JUST THE BEGINNING FOR NYC RATEPAYERS
• Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition
  Warns NYC Water Board of
  Ratepayers Being Overcharged
• Comments for the Manhattan Water Board Hearing
  By Marian Rose, CWCWC President
  May 4, 2005
• Comments for the Bronx Water Board Hearing
  By Fay Muir, Clean Water For The Bronx
  May 4, 2005

• New York City Water Board Raises Water Rates:
  Just the Beginning for NYC Ratepayers.
• CWCWC Water Board Press Release.
• Water Board Budget Overview and Comments
  from Marian Rose, PhD and Fay Muir.

• CWCWC's Lawsuit Against DEP: A Very Brief Explanatory Guide
• A Mini "Gates" Airs a Major Grievance

• 2004 Annual Wrapups from the Board of Directors.
• New "Opinions and Perspectives from Around Our Watershed" Page.
• Photos from the 2004 Annual Meeting.

• CWCWC Calls for IMMEDIATE STUDY of the use of Membrane Filtration for the Croton System – CWCWC Position Paper on the Need to Examine the Use of Membrane Technology to Treat the Waters of the Croton System.

• Westchester Land Trust's Land Acquisition Programs Aid Watershed Protection.
• DEP's Plan Puts New York City's Water Supply in Danger!
  

• CWCWC's Midsummer Updates -- Catch Up on the Coalition's Involvements in Putnam and Westchester Counties and in New York City.

• One Specific Opportunity for You to Help Protect Our Watershed --
  Get Involved.
• With the Editing/Production of Valuable Video Footage Chronicling
  the Fight for the Croton!
• A Management Plan for the Croton Watershed -- An Overview.

• A Plan to Protect the Croton Watershed -- Now.
• Bronx Hearing on the DEP’s proposed Chemical Treatment/Filtration Plant for Croton water is Reduced to a Screaming Match.

• Mayor Bloomberg Needs to Hear the Opposition's Voice Regarding
  the DEP’s proposed Chemical Treatment/Filtration of the Croton!
• A Needless Argument About Siting an Unneeded (DEP Proposed) Chemical Treatment/Filtration Plant.
• A Close Look at Our Water's Infrastructure.

• 2003 Gets A Review From Experts in the Field.

• NO, Mayor Bloomberg, The DEP’s Proposed Croton Filtration Plant
  is Not a Done Deal!
• Learn About SEQRA/CEQR in One Quick Read.

• A Challenge to New York City Officials and Concerned Residents.

• Strange Science -- DEP's proposed Mosholu Plan Reveals Woeful Inadequacies.
• Say What? -- DEP's 2002 Annual Report on Croton Reveals
  Excellent Water.

• Healthy Streams, Unhealthy Streams -- and how to Tell
  the Difference.
• The Extraordinary Resiliency of the Croton Watershed.

• Putnam County -- an eye-opening account of what Putnam County faces today.

• 2002 Recap -- CWCWC Recounts the Highlights and Successes
  of the Year!

• A Ground-Breaking Radio Program: WBAI-FM's Eco-Logic.
• Teaming up with CWCWC: Hudson Basin River Watch, Hudson
  River Water-Quality Monitors.

• Critical Resource Waters -- Find Out About this Powerhouse Organization.
• The Future Face of Volunteer Action.

• Explore the Great Swamp -- Critical Water Source and Home to Abundant Life!
• News and Notes -- Expansions, New Developments, and Galley Systems.

• Shouldn't the Need for Clean Water Supercede the FAA's Unstated Agenda?
• The Kensico Reservoir and its Nemesis, FAA Expansion...
• NYC DEP's Chemical Treatment/Filtration Plant Site Proposal
  is Greeted by a Bronx Cheer.

• Retrospective 2001: Catch Up on the Hot Watershed Battles,
  Issues and Insights.

• Are Crisis Management and a Political Leadership Vacuum
  One and the Same?
• John Keane of Trout Unlimited and the Stormwater-Runoff
  Crisis Facing the Croton Watershed.
• Reducing Pollution -- Marc Yaggi of Riverkeeper Spotlights
  the Post-Stormwater Regulations Future.

• Our Water Needs and the Importance of Hallock's Mill, Yorktown's Wastewater Treatment Plant.

• Preservation Efforts for Putnam County's Historic Property, Thoroughbred Horse Farm Tilly Foster.
• Citizens for Equal Environmental Protection (CEEP) Fight for Environmental Justice in the Sewage Diversion Issue.

• The Riverdale Press Publishes CWCWC's Alternatives to Filtration.

• Alienation Must be Declared Says NYS Court of Appeals
  -- a Major Victory that will Force DEP to Rethink Proposed Filtration.
• CWCWC Presents Letter to the EPA Regarding Renegotiation of the Consent Decree.
• What the Press is Reporting about the Future of the DEP’s Proposed Chemical Treatment/Filtration Plant.

• The Case Against the DEP’s Proposed Chemical Treatment/Filtration
  of the Croton -- Three Definitive Arguments.
• Extensive Trout Unlimited Pollution Study Demands Attention.