Which of the 19 upstate reservoirs are currently contaminated?
In 1965, Governor Rockefeller had proposed a plan to bypass the Rondout Reservoir and bring water directly to NYC from the remaining reservoirs
This plan was partially funded and then scuttled shortly after the NYC Mayor announced it
This plan was partially funded and then scuttled shortly after the NYC Mayor announced it
Top Middle Left is the Rondout Reservoir, the last leg of NYC's current water Supply, . . . bottom right corner is Napanoch
Background
Rondout Reservoir is the last leg of New York City's water supply network.
The reservoir was made possible by the construction of Merriman Dam along Rondout Creek. Construction began in 1937 and ended in 1954, three years after the reservoir began delivering water. It would be the first of four built by the city to satisfy its growing demand in the years after World War II. Three villages – Lackawack, Montela and Eureka – were condemned and flooded in the process. The small settlement of Grahamsville remains in existence just west of the reservoir.
Early warnings
In 1998, the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an advisory[1] warning against eating more than one reservoir-caught smallmouth bass per month after mercury levels of 1.3 part per million (ppm), slightly above the federal standard of 1.0 ppm, were confirmed in three caught in the reservoir. Since there is no industry in the reservoir's vast watershed, this contamination is believed to be the result of acid rain from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest
Forged dam inspections controversy
In 2006, after residents raised concerns regarding the soundness of both Merriman and Neversink dams following emergency repairs to Schoharie Dam, a local newspaper, the Times Herald-Record, obtained copies of weekly visual inspection reports for both and found that the handwriting and information relating to the appearance of the dams on weekly reports compiled by inspector Ronald Hewlett and initialed by section engineer Russell Betters over a three-year period were virtually identical, suggesting they had been routinely photocopied.[2] The two were later suspended.[3]
The reservoir was made possible by the construction of Merriman Dam along Rondout Creek. Construction began in 1937 and ended in 1954, three years after the reservoir began delivering water. It would be the first of four built by the city to satisfy its growing demand in the years after World War II. Three villages – Lackawack, Montela and Eureka – were condemned and flooded in the process. The small settlement of Grahamsville remains in existence just west of the reservoir.
Early warnings
In 1998, the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an advisory[1] warning against eating more than one reservoir-caught smallmouth bass per month after mercury levels of 1.3 part per million (ppm), slightly above the federal standard of 1.0 ppm, were confirmed in three caught in the reservoir. Since there is no industry in the reservoir's vast watershed, this contamination is believed to be the result of acid rain from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest
Forged dam inspections controversy
In 2006, after residents raised concerns regarding the soundness of both Merriman and Neversink dams following emergency repairs to Schoharie Dam, a local newspaper, the Times Herald-Record, obtained copies of weekly visual inspection reports for both and found that the handwriting and information relating to the appearance of the dams on weekly reports compiled by inspector Ronald Hewlett and initialed by section engineer Russell Betters over a three-year period were virtually identical, suggesting they had been routinely photocopied.[2] The two were later suspended.[3]
Known Reservoir Facts;
- Up until 1935, flood control measures had largely been left up to the states and local municipalities
- In 1936, The United States Senate passed the Flood Control Act of 1936, granting sweeping federal authority to the US Army Corp of Engineers over all locating, engineering, and creation of US damns, levees, reservoirs and aqueducts
- In 1937, the ACOE commenced eminent domain proceedings on the three small towns in west Napanoch for the construction of the Merriman Damn to prevent downstream Rondout Creek flooding and simultaneously create a reservoir to supplement New York City's growing demands on it's water supply 35 miles northwest of West Point as per their Flood Control Project of 1937
- This network of four reservoirs was to be located in the Catskill Mountains just 35 miles northwest of the West Point Military Academy aka Army Corp of Engineers
The First FBI tip that mercury was found in the Napanoch / Rondout Reservoir
The Ashokan Reservoir mercury discovery of 1999
The Ashokan Reservoir mercury discovery of 1999
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DEP Watershed Maintainer Danko testified before a Federal grand jury just one month prior to 9/11
Mr.Paul Danko testified that he was instructed by DEP management to install wooden pegs to block the vent holes of sluice gates which tested positive for methyl mercury vapors.
Mr.Paul Danko testified that he was instructed by DEP management to install wooden pegs to block the vent holes of sluice gates which tested positive for methyl mercury vapors.
On August 21st 2001, NYC was fined $50,000. for covering up the mercury test results for two and a half years.
In 2006, DEP Damn Inspections become Suspect
- On January 15th, 1994, President Clinton issued the Executive Order 12891 which established the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments in order to declassify Unethical World War II experiments
- In 1995, President Clinton Signed Executive Order 12958 in an unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from national security history
- In 1999, the Bush Administration sought to reclassify these documents which were already in the Public Domain
- On October 8th 2001, In response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) to coordinate "homeland security" and share information among all the alphabet agencies.
- On October 26th 2001, the US Patriot act was signed and almost all mention of the DEP Mercury Cover Up, disappeared from newsprint and media outlets
- On November 25th 2002 the Critical Infrastructure Information Act went into effect,
This CIII Act prohibited any critical infrastructure self admissions concerning tainted methyl mercury, to be foiled, published or introduced into any court of law - On March 25th 2003, President Bush issued Executive Order 13292 as an amendment blocking President Clinton/s Executive Order 12958 from disclosing Infrastructure related documents
- In 2006, the National Infrastructure Protection plan was signed by 15 agencies with the EPA becoming the sector specific agency in charge of Water and Waste Water Infrastructure,
The sector specific head of the EPA was allowed to designate people, places, or things that in their opinion, could be viewed as a potential threat to national security - On December 29th, 2009, President Obama Issued Executive Order 13526, which revoked and replaced both prior Executive Orders
- Section 1.7 of Executive Order 13526 states that National Security Classifications Cannot be used to cover up a crime
- Whether information related to nuclear weapons can constitutionally be "born secret" as provided for by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 has not been tested in the courts.
The first step under the 2006 NIPP was to identify US citizens working at jobs that posed the greatest threat of discovery
The scheme appears to be to single out potential whistleblowers for surveillance accuse them of being a "Lone Wolf Domestic Terrorist" to ensure the loss of their civil rights of due process and equal protection under the law.
For Example;
The scheme appears to be to single out potential whistleblowers for surveillance accuse them of being a "Lone Wolf Domestic Terrorist" to ensure the loss of their civil rights of due process and equal protection under the law.
For Example;
- DEP Watershed Maintainer Paul Danko >
- DEP Watershed Maintainer David Reese >
- DEC Wildlife Pathologist Dr. Ward Stone >
- DOH Director Dean Palin >
The Shawangunk Journal
- There has been a long tradition of Illegal Dumping in Upstate New York reservoirs
- The One and ONLY Newspaper that would ever dare to mention the contamination issue was the Shawangunk Journal
- Paul Smart / Editor in Chief would print leading stories, which the other regional newspapers like the Times Herald Record, or the Daily Freeman would simply refuse to pick up on
- The Kingston Daily Freeman would only print articles aimed at character assassination and /or articles to misinform the public, refusing to report well known facts in the community
From 2001 until 2007, Mr. Danko was the victim of his superiors methodical retaliation who tried to provoke him into committing a crime which they could use to fire him with
Mr. Danko was arrested by Port Jervis police for threatening Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush (with the charge of attempted coercion)
Mr. Rush said during a phone call, . .that Mr. Danko had threatened to "Go Postal" if Mr.Paul Rush allowed the retaliation to continue
Mr. Danko was arrested by Port Jervis police for threatening Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush (with the charge of attempted coercion)
Mr. Rush said during a phone call, . .that Mr. Danko had threatened to "Go Postal" if Mr.Paul Rush allowed the retaliation to continue
Up until 2002, the FBI and EPA had been investigating the DEP for Mercury in the water
The Primary DEP Officials;
1. Commissioner Emily llyoyd
2. Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush
3. Director of Natural Resources Ira Stern
1. Commissioner Emily llyoyd
2. Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush
3. Director of Natural Resources Ira Stern
2011, DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland is seated at the table, closest, to Exec Hein
Commissioner Strickland quit his job and disappeared immediately following the DEP Homicide on 2/3/2014
Commissioner Strickland quit his job and disappeared immediately following the DEP Homicide on 2/3/2014
In 2012, Mayor Bloomberg addressed some of County Exec Hein's claims of the DEP acting like an occupying nation The Observer
Backstory
January 2nd, 2011 / at an Aqueduct leak PAC meeting The DEP Board of Water Supply started responding to complaints and lawsuits from homeowners above their leaking aqueduct
The Greater Catskill Remediation Program
- New York City gets all of it's drinking water from Upstate New York, which is conveyed through an aqueduct water tunnel,
- The water tunnel that conveys one billion gallons per day, . . is cracked.
- Severe rain events hit the greater NorthEast area in 2006, and flooding occurred in Upstate New York.
- Right afterwards, the DEP began supplying bottled water and chlorination filters, to homeowners living directly above the new york city leaking Aqueduct, and then commissioned 2 years of extensive engineering from "Arcadis" consultants, aka (Malcomn Pirnie) , to study the problems associated with the broken aqueduct.
- n 2008, the DEP commissioned four more years, of extensive USGS studies and reports, to make observations of the chemistry of the local and public drinking water wells.
- New York City performed their due diligence by dividing the study into 4 designated areas.
- in the first designated area, 55 homes were deemed so toxic and beyond repair, that they needed to be bought out, destroyed, and deed restrictions applied, mandating that no future structure for human inhabitation could ever be built again.
- In the second and third designated areas, new york city agreed to build a new public drinking water system, for over 300 residents, with the stipulation that all of the residents agreed to sign health releases of future litigation.
- The drinking water system extended a mile and a half north, to the ellenville troopers Barracks, which tested positive for 13,800 parts per billion of Strontium 90.
- The Arcadis consultant and engineering firm, aka (Malcomn Pirnea) had been placed in charge of the channel masters RCRA superfund site, for the past three decades by the EPA
- The local politicians enacted a media blackout, so that no word of it would be printed, and no rumors could be spread
NYC's Catskill Delaware Aqueduct Leak
DEP Area #1 aka 55 house buyout / contaminated drinking wells
1939's thru 45's experimental cornfields of the Napanoch Institution for Male Defective Delinquent's , aka Colony Farm
The unconsolidated aquifer that mirrors the newly proposed DEP public drinking water system for Wawarsing
The DEP's Kryptonite was air quality monitors and water vapors
The former Greater Catskill Flood Remediation Program
Laura Smith also lived over top of the broken water tunnel and was a very Outspoken Critic of the DEP's handling of it.
The NYC's Board of Water Supply wanted to make sure that the contamination plume affecting the local residential (deep drilled) drinking wells, which also surrounded the NYC Cracked Water Tunnel, . . remained very discreet and confidential, on a need to know, basis.
Signing a Non Negotiable, NYC health release of litigation, was mandatory for Laura Smith, Mike Rosellie and other buyout residents
The NYC's Board of Water Supply wanted to make sure that the contamination plume affecting the local residential (deep drilled) drinking wells, which also surrounded the NYC Cracked Water Tunnel, . . remained very discreet and confidential, on a need to know, basis.
Signing a Non Negotiable, NYC health release of litigation, was mandatory for Laura Smith, Mike Rosellie and other buyout residents
Mr. Weishaupt's partner in crime, Director of Emergency Management Arthur Snyder
The DEP's greatest fear was Indoor Air Quality Monitors that could detect and quantify the amount of VOC's circulating in water vapor seepage
Mr. Michael Rossellie lived directly above the NYC Aqueduct leak
The USGS tested Mr. Rosellie's Drinking water well, listed as U1625, for the DEP Aqueduct study and report
The USGS Report; showed 2.00 Uranium in Mr. Rosellie's drinking water well on 12/14/09
Mr. Rosseli's Kagan Lane home was located just 800 ft east of the town's closed, 16 acre landfill,
Mike Rosellie Died October 4th, 2017
Mike Rossellie's Obituary R.I.P.
The USGS tested Mr. Rosellie's Drinking water well, listed as U1625, for the DEP Aqueduct study and report
The USGS Report; showed 2.00 Uranium in Mr. Rosellie's drinking water well on 12/14/09
Mr. Rosseli's Kagan Lane home was located just 800 ft east of the town's closed, 16 acre landfill,
Mike Rosellie Died October 4th, 2017
Mike Rossellie's Obituary R.I.P.
Tryclorethane, Methyl Chloride, and Benzene vapors had been harming people's health for decades
A Groundwater Contamination plume from a legacy waste factory is thought to have affected the local population in the Villages of Ellenville and Napanoch
The Factory that had produced Cold War Era legacy wastes was located upstream from the Aqueduct tunnel in the village of Ellenville,
A local groundwater contamination plume from an old legacy waste factory was one of the sources of the VOC contamination plume
Ulster County Undersheriff; Mike Freer
- tried to do what he could to help get the trooper barracks / disease registry story out, . . but did not want to lose his job and his pension or get into trouble with the Feds
NYC's Primary Goal was to avoid installing a Filtration System for the city residents which was mandated by Federal Law back in 1993
The Filtration System could cost in excess of $20,000,000,000.
The City went to court and obtained a "Filtration Avoidance Determination" to postpone the EPA's Federal Mandate under the "Safe Drinking Water Act"
The Filtration System could cost in excess of $20,000,000,000.
The City went to court and obtained a "Filtration Avoidance Determination" to postpone the EPA's Federal Mandate under the "Safe Drinking Water Act"
One former Ellenville native;
- who now lives in Alaska had been following the story from facebook posts and gave us an interview to blend with our current resident working the Ellenville Store's cash register
- Most All of the Local Ellenville residents are very well aware of what is going on with the water tunnel and the disease registry, but feel too frightened, helpless and their situation to hopeless, . . to Speak Up
TIMES UNION
Trump says upstate New Yorkers should move, leave homes behind
July 27th 2017
Are they REAL PEOPLE?
April 29th 2015 approx 10am, . . .the day that radioactive 7034 Route 209 was inspected by Emergency Management Steve Petersen and taken later that same day, by County Attorney Beatrice Havranek for Demolition
I tried talking to Judges, lawyers, prosecutors and police down at the Kingston Court House, . . to no avail
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Why is NYC's drinking water supply different than Flint, Michigan's drinking water supply?
The ARMY CORP of ENGINEERS engineered the construction of 19 Upstate Reservoirs and Damns (with mercury seals in the sluice gates) back in the 1930's and 1940's
The first reservoir to be built from approx. 1939 thru 1945 lay at the west end of Napanoch and the experimental 1939 thru 1945 Laboratory for the development of substitute materials lay in the Eastern portion of Napanoch
The Army Corp of Engineers commissions and authorizes all flood work to be done, in all streams, and Floodplain (riparian areas) in conjunction with FEMA
The former Ellenville Channel Master factory was located equally in the adjoining Fantynekil, Sandburg and Rondout Creek Floodplain Riparian areas.
Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush graduated from the Army Corp of Engineers, West Point military academy, as an engineering officer, just before going to work for the DEP, in 1992
The first reservoir to be built from approx. 1939 thru 1945 lay at the west end of Napanoch and the experimental 1939 thru 1945 Laboratory for the development of substitute materials lay in the Eastern portion of Napanoch
The Army Corp of Engineers commissions and authorizes all flood work to be done, in all streams, and Floodplain (riparian areas) in conjunction with FEMA
The former Ellenville Channel Master factory was located equally in the adjoining Fantynekil, Sandburg and Rondout Creek Floodplain Riparian areas.
Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush graduated from the Army Corp of Engineers, West Point military academy, as an engineering officer, just before going to work for the DEP, in 1992
When Mr. Weishaupte declared it relevant to
18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
What if, . . In 1938, realizing that war might be eminent, President Roosevelt interrupted the Army Corp's work on the 1st of the four NYC reservoirs and focused their highest priority on the need for a new weapon of mass destruction
What if, . . in 1939, the Army Corp of Engineers classified Napanoch as a necessary military proving ground for their research and development and the village of Ellenville as an Army Signal Corp. military base.
What if, . . in 1939, the Army Corp of Engineers classified Napanoch as a necessary military proving ground for their research and development and the village of Ellenville as an Army Signal Corp. military base.
- the latest technology of gamma rays could easily be produced by small nuclear reactors and were known to be able to penetrate tank armor and concrete bunkers
- Radiological Warfare which would later become known as salted dirty bombs were comprised of conventional TNT explosives wrapped with a "heavy metal jacket" of irradiated radiological materials
- The heavy metals cobalt and zinc were easily irradiated but mercury 203 could be preferable due to the fact of it's very short half life of 67 days or less
