WTC site damage assessment map, Sept 21, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Beth Israel 14,262 inpatients Full-service tertiary Average occupancy rate: Medical Center teaching hospital; 1,368 77.1% 23,724 ambulatory beds 25,061 emergency admissions 371,512 emergency visits 59,317 discharges

NYU Hospitals 8,596 outpatient 616 beds (Tisch); 152 82.7% occupancy rate Center day surgeries beds (Rusk) (Tisch); 88.7% 22,723 outpatient occupancy ratn (Rusk) emergency service 28,327 total discharges

Environmental Impacts

Workers responsible for demolition and construction activities would be expected to live within the NYC area and to already be using health care facilities and services in the area.

Although the proposed construction would likely result in a relatively short-term increase of calls to “911” and for emergency medical services, no significant impact to community or health care services in the vicinity of the WTC would be anticipated as a result of the implementation of any of the proposed action alternatives. »

3.6,3.2 Water Supply

New York City possesses a water supply system that has exceptional source water quality and is most entirely supplied by gravity. Water fi-om four primary upstate watersheds is impounded in the Croton, Catskill, and Delaware Systems that includes 18 reservoirs and three controlled lakes, with a total available storage capacity of about 558 billion gallons. The Croton, Catskill, and Delaware Systems were designed and built with various interconnections to increase flexibility by permitting exchange of water from one system to another. This feature helps mitigate localized droughts and takes advantage of excess water in any of the three systems. An emergency pumping station at on the Hudscn River at Chelsea has the ability to augment the water supply by 100 million gallons per day (MGD) during severe drought conditions. Over the past 35 years, the average daily water demand in New York City has ranged from a low of 1,045 MGD in the drought year of 1966 to a high of 1513 MGD in 1979. In 1995, the average daily water demand for New York City was 1,326.2 MGD.

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