The NYC Aqueduct Water Tunnel
 Conveys 1,000,000,000 gallons of water to NYC, per day

DEP DESIGNATED AREA
​Loses 14,000,000 gallons per day

PictureHoles were discovered in the lime rock section of the NYC Aqueduct
Holes were discovered in the lime Limerock section of the NYC Aqueduct
 PictureNYC commissioned 4 years ​of USGS studies monitoring ​local drinking wells
NYC commissioned 4 years 
​of USGS studies monitoring 
​local drinking wells 
 PictureNYC Denies all Liability regarding Mass Toxic Tort Litigation from the locals
NYC Denies all Liability 

USGS Tunnel History shows;
Groundwater INFLOW of 
​12,960,000  gal. per day   

 Groundwater ​Plume in Wawarsing NY 
​"DEP DESIGNATE AREA"

  Wawarsing Patch
​"DEP DESIGNATED AREA"

​There is No"Back Up Plan" to deliver Water to NYC

​ RECENT LESSER KNOWN DETAILS:                      Unpublished by the News Media
  • The USGS Survey discovered Radioactive Tritium, Benzene, and Strontium 90 in local well water in the "DEP Designated Area"
  • NYC offered approximately $20,000. to each resident for Health Settlements and to obtain "Releases of Litigation," and almost everyone signed off and left.
  • ​55 homes have so far been Purchased and Demolished by NYC / NYS in the DEP Designated Area and most owners and their families have been safely relocated.
  • NYC, did not wish to use Eminent Domain proceedings and draw EPA, nor public scrutiny to what was taking place.    ​​​​
  • The DEP wanted everything to look voluntary              Willing Sellers /  Willing Buyer
  • Only One Person refused to take the settlement, and leave his friends and neighbors behind.​
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1990's LESSER KNOWN FACTS:
  • In 1993, the EPA Federally mandated that NYC install a 10 Billion filtration plant at the end of the aqueduct system, under the SDWA / Safe Drinking Water Act.
  • NYC Refused, and instead went to court to obtain a Filtration Avoidance Determination.​
  • The FAD was conditional on the Fact that NYC, the NYSDEP, the NYSDOH, and the NYSDEC would maintain "aqueduct water quality in compliance" 
  • The DEP, DEC, and DOH are held 100% Accountable to the EPA and Fed
  • The FAD Postponement of the $10,000,000,000. Filtration System is Renewable every five years

CROSS CONTAMINATION  

1960's COVER UP:  
 It had long been suspected that the water tunnel, was surrounded by a toxic chlorinated plume, left over from World War II, 
In 1965, NYC had planned to build a new Bypass Tunnel to circumvent the existing Rondout Reservoir, Ellenville, Napanoch, and the fractured limestone formations,  
but revealing the cross contamination, during the height of the cold war, could have violated National Security.