NYC LEAKING AQUEDUCT

Oct. 20th, 2014;     An underwater drone pinpointed  another pair of new holes in the NYC Aqueduct in Upstate Wawarsing.  

The Leaks Totals 35,000,000 gallons of water per day.

How much has been spent on health releases, so far ?
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Why does the DEP need 300 Releases of Litigation ?​​

How Many Houses in total, are to be Removed from the Tax Rolls ?

What's going on in the Rondout Creek's  Backyard ?, . . flood plain ?

2012 DEP paid $3,700,000. for 20 flooded homes of residents with flu like symptoms 

2013 DEP pays $5,500,000.  to remediate homes left behind  in exchange for health releases of litigation

2017 DEP will pay $7,000,000. to Install a  Town Wide public drinking water  system 
  • Who is in Charge of the $5,500,000 Neighborhood ​Repair Program ?
  • ​How many houses are left in the "DEP Designated Area" ? ​
  • How much do residents receive, for releases of litigation?.
  • Are the Past Buyout Release Settlements indicative of Future DEP Offers ?  / average of $20,000. per /
  • If Residents are willing to sign a "property damage" release, but not the "personal Injury" release, will they be offered medical payment reimbursement ?​

Footnote: The DEP plans to rescind all leftover money from the $5,500,000. Neighborhood Release and Repair fund, . . .  which has not been claimed, nor utilized.

Between 2004 and 2006 there were several Extreme Rain Events  in the Hudson Valley that drastically affected the Rondout Creek Flood Plain, including Hurricane Katrina.
8 Community Drinking wells reported Water Quality Statistics to the NYS Board of Health.
1 well was Located at the Route 209 troopers barracks, 3 Located at two separate State Prisons, and 4 wells Belonged to the Hamlet of Napanoch.
​One of the State's Prisons was shut down in 2009, and the Route 209 trooper's barracks was placed on Bottled Water 
Residents directly above the leak were also Advised to no Longer Drink their water. 
The  Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, opened in 1900 as the "State Institution for Male Defective Delinquents" and  borders the former Channel Masters Factory and Joseph Y. Resnick Airport.

Eastern Correctional Shut Down the Colony Farm Prison In 2009, and Two Community Drinking Wells were Taken Out of Service

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​Former Board Of Health Director; Dean Palen was also Taken Out of Service
​in 2009

DEC's Role

DEC Professor Ward Stone was a bloodhound for sniffing out Superfund Sites, ever since he began work on the Love Canal Project with Maurice Hinchey, in 1981
Dr. Stone was effectively eliminated and was held up for Public Ridicule in 2012.
Afterward; His Entire DEC Pathology Department was eliminated by NYS.

of the $4,800,000. is still available; the DEP demands signed releases of liability, in advance of remediation negotations

The New York City water supply system leaks at a rate of up to 36 million US gallons (140,000 m3) per day.[10] A complex five-year project with an estimated $240 million construction cost was initiated in November 2008 to correct some of this leakage.

Issues Related to the DEP Aqueduct Leaks

Inform the Public

Rondout Creek Disease Registry

Re: History; World War II 

1945; Feb,15th ; U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers Declares Eminent Domain of the Sun Ray water tunnel / former Zinc Mine,  six months prior to the Bombing of Hiroshima
  • Used for the Processing and Production of Uranium 235​
  • Former Pepsi Cola Bottling Factory / Zinc Mine was located in Ellenville, New York, less than 300 ft. from the Rondout Creek and D&H Canal​​
  • Mid; 1946; NYC Resumed Construction of the Rondout Aqueduct Tunnel, Unaware
1958; NYC Engineers Inspected the NYC Aqueduct  Water Tunnel  
  • for Cross Contamination  
  • Cracks are Discovered in the  Lime Rock  "cross section" beneath Wawarsing
  • INFLOW to the tunnel Documented at 12,960,000 gallons per day.​​​ 
  • Additional Steel and Concrete Liner is Added, but to No Avail
1965; Measures are Undertaken to Correct Problems while keeping the Situation TOP SECRET  from the Russians, "RESTRICTED DATA" during the Cold War
  • Research Hospital Built for Ellenville
  • Pure Waters Act created to give Ellenville First Water Pollution Grant in History
  • Animal Welfare Act (1st in history) passed to protect domestic animals from Biomedical Radioactive Research
  • Additional NYC Aqueduct Tunnel is Planned to BYPASS the existing Delaware Tunnel from the influent of the Rondout Reservoir, straight through to NYC,
  • while also Bypassing   Ellenville  / Napanoch and Kerhonkson
1989: Napanoch Paper Mill / 1st Superfund Site to be Discovered / 1 mile from the Sun Ray water Tunnel  
1989; Channel Masters North Carolina, Factory #2,  Superfund Site is Discovered
1990; Channel Masters Ellenville NY, Factory #1, RCRA (superfund site) is Discovered
1993; EPA SDWA ISSUES MANDATORY FILTRATION SYSYEM for NYC 
1994; NYC WINS / FILTRATION AVOIDANCE DETERMINATION
1997; Ellenville / 2nd Superfund Site is Discovered, 1 mile from the Sun Ray Water Tunnel
2006; Route 209 Trooper's Barracks Dept. of Health Well Water results, Trigger 6 years of Extensive Hydrology / Water Chemistry Studies, by Malcolm Pirnie Engineers and the USGS. ​
​NorthEastern Correctional Facility Well Results also Impacted.
2008; The NYS Governor Created the;
The "GCFRP" ​​ PHASE #1 Buyout / Demolition law in Response to the Severe Rain Events
Greater Catskill Flood Remediation Program 
2009; A NEW 2010 "GCFRP" plan was put into place that would obtain 300, Releases of Litigation 
It would appear to the Public that it was initiated with "Left Over Disaster Relief" funds from New York State
  •  GCFRP PHASE #2
  •  GCFRP PHASE #3
 2012;  After six years of USGS Due Diligence, The DEP Declares that anyone  living within two miles of an Aqueduct, with Groundwater Seepage, would be Eligible for a Buyout, if they were willing to Sign a Health "Release of Litigation" in favor of NYC
2015: The Clean Water Rule; Now OFFICIALLY EXCLUDES ALL Groundwater and has DUMPED ALL RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CONTAMINANTS, in the Roundout Creek Floodplain 
​ right in the Laps of New York City and New York State
2016; What are We going to Do About it?       STAND UNITED? , . . or, . .  TURN A BLIND EYE?
 One Man, REFUSED to accept a settlement, . . . Sign a NYC "Release of Litigation",   and Leave his Friends and Neighbors Behind, in the Contamination. He stayed and fought for a few kids that DESERVE to be Born Healthy

                                     Army of One / Video


​5,990,000 thought that it could never Happen to Them

Miscellaneous
 FBI Special Agent; Matt Fontaine, "White Collar Crime" 
2015; Ulster County D.A. / Chief Investigator; Paul Watzka Incriminates DEP "OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE"
New York State and/or Federal Disaster Relief Funds may only be used for Buyout / Demolitions "AFTER"  Houses have Been Condemned  

1954 / 1955; Major Floods Wipe out Half of Ellenville

DEP Aqueduct Cracks Located 2.5 Miles from Sun Ray Water Tunnel
1962;  JFK Realizes Strontium 90  causes Childhood Cancer and BANS all "Above Ground Nuclear Testing"

1987; Flooding is Rampant in the Hudson Valley and along the Eastern Coast
Down the Road 2 miles, over top of the Cracked Aqueduct,
 1989    VERSUS    1993
The "Greater Catskill Flood Remediation Program"
Riverkeeper leak