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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Ra-engineeringfFlanning East Side Access Program - Long Island Railroad (MTA); Queens and Manhattan On Thursday, July 20, 2000, representatives from DEP met with the project management team from the Metropolitan Transit Authority/Long Island Railroad to discuss the proposed MTA LIRR East Side Access Plan. Currently, the East Side Access Plan has a proposed budget of $4.3 billion dollars in order to provide access to Grand Central Terminal for the Long Island Railroad. The work, which will be performed in stages, will include providing access-to the 63n° Street Tunnel for the LIRR via the Sunnyside Mail Yard and construction of new train lines in Park Avenue using the existing MetroNorth track area in addition to new stations in Manhattan and Queens. It is expected that the work will take eight (8) to ten (10) years to complete. Preliminary design plans and scopes are being prepared for some of the stages. Engineers from DEP's Water and Sewer Operations will review all such plans as they are submitted by MTA/LIRR or their consultant engineers.

Sewer Reconstruction -A msterdain Avenue 156th Street to 15 7th Street; Manhattan In order to ensure that there is no possibility of sewer contaminants infiltrating into Shaft 29 on the Croton Aqueduct, the punagency sewer repair contractor has relocated the sewer that was an integral part of the shaft structure. The work to construct the new sewer has been completed and the contractor is restoring the roadway pavement. The restoration will be completed today. Croton Aquedtwt dewatering will commence this week

New York Botanical Gardens Infrastructure Improvement; Bronx A meeting was held on Friday, July 28, 2000 involving DEP representatives and the New York Botanical Garden and their consultant engineers. Discussion at the meeting involved a presentation of a proposal by the Botanical Gardens to improve existing inikastrucnue and construction of new fkoilities as part of a major improvement project. Much of the major work will include construction in of a new plant Propagation Range and a new Visitor's Center addition to enlarging the Garden Cafe building. DEP will review the design plans when they are submitted for their impact on existing water and sewer facilities. Additional meetings with the consultants and Botanical Gardens will be held if necessary.

Updates

Genera( Water Quality and Quantity Due to heavy rains, turbidity levels in the Rondout reservoir have risen significantly, DEP has reduced the draw from the reservoir to 440 million gallons per day (mgd), versus a more normal 700- 800 mgd. The turbidity continues to settle out in downstream reservoirs and does not pose a threat to the drinking water intakes at this time. Staff continues to monitor the situation closely. As of August 15, the reservoirs were at 96.7% of capacity. Normal capacity for this time of year is 86.0%. Consumption fbr August 14 was 1280.2 million gallons. The quality of Catskill/Delaware and Croton source water continues to be excellent.

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