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Free Rain Barrels for New Yorkers
Posted by New York Times: MIREYA NAVARRO on April 22nd, 2011
New York Times: New York City Department of Environmental Protection New York City is offering homeowners 55-gallon rain-collection barrels.
It’s raining barrels.
New York City is giving away 55-gallon rain barrels to homeowners to help conserve water and reduce pressure on the city’s sewer system, which is often overwhelmed during heavy storms. The city started promoting the barrels by distributing a few hundred of them in Queens in 2008 and 750 more in 2009 to homeowners who applied for them. This year,...
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New York City Can Buy More Watershed Land, State Says
Posted by New York Times: MIREYA NAVARRO on February 16th, 2011
New York Times: New York City can continue to buy land to protect its watershed in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley from development under an agreement announced on Wednesday by the city and state.
Officials with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the city’s Environmental Protection Department said the state had issued a permit under the agreement that allows New York City to continue the land acquisition program for the next 15 years.
The land and watershed-protection effort,...