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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Department of Environmental Protection Projects and Initiatives

Project Title Description Start or Announcement Date

Brooklyn -Queens This project will utilize the surcharged aquifer Announcement may be Aquifer and under Brooklyn and Queens which has been made in 2001; Planning Ridgewood Reservoir causing basement flooding in communities in is On-going; Pilot those boroughs to provide an additional Project start date is source of potable water in the City to be used December 2002 in the event of drought or emergencies while at the same time controlling basement floodin y creating a treatment/storage facility a the currently unutilized Ridgewood Reservo r.

• The first phase of the project will approximately $10 million to treat 10 m,

New Wetland • The Bluebelt was an extremely popular Announcement in Program/City and program of wetland creation and protection Spring 2001. Upstate reducing flooding. We plan a second program in another area of Staten Island, based on the Bluebelt's successes. We also are developing programs downstate as well as upstate, to create new wetland spaces to more than compensate for development as it occurs. We are working on the details and name/s for the project/s.

• This project will cost approximately $10 million for the Staten Island portion.

Toilet Rebate II • A conservation program offering a financial Available in 2001 incentive to owners of 6-family and above after Water Board multiple dwellings who replace high water use approval. toilet fixtures with low flow fixtures.

• Cost of the project is currently estimated at 35- 36 million of which some 13 million is already available in funds remaining from the first

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