Lower Manhattan rebuilding blueprint excerpt, Oct 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

I Rose Marabetti Air, Noise & Hazmat |oel A. Miele Sr., P.E., Commissioner nth flr. Charles C. Sturken, Esa.. Chief of Staff/Special Counsel

Date: h a 6; Includes: Mar/sh ZcppesprrE

City tx) Restrict Water Use By Dan Janison A drought emergency is triggered when it STAFF WRITER appears there’s no chance the reservoir sys­ City officials were poised last night to im­ tem will be filled to capacity by summer. pose emergency water restrictions today — Two weeks ago, the Catskills reservoir sys­ including curbs on washing cars and side­ tem was about 50 percent full, compared walks and water use by businesses. with the usual 87.2 percent this time of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has scheduled year. a drought announcement for 9:15 a.m. at At the time, -the Department of Environ­ one of the city’s water-tunnel facilities in mental Protection was reporting that im­ the Bronx. provements in water levels have not been Under a drought emergency, the city bars rapid enough to avert further concern. the washing of cars, sidewalks and streets, Also at the time. City Council members limits the watering of lawns at times other grilled then-DEP Commissioner Joel Miele than early morning and late evening every on why the city was waiting to take the next other day, and restricts watering of golf step. course areas other than tees and greens. A mayoral spokesman last night declined After a winter with little snow, the city de­ to confirm or deny that the decision has clared a drought warning on Jan. 27, nalring been made. residents to limit water use. Environmental bfScials^amed March 12 Scheduled to appear outside a DEP valve that the city was headed for such curbs in chamber beneath Van Cortlandt Park in the two weeks if upstate 'reservoirs'were not Bronx, Bloomberg is expected to urge resi­ boosted by significant, rainfall ■ x• dents anew to kegp showers short, not let Bloomberg/s previousT- aiipeals fori water the faucets drip ani tum off the tap. wbile conservation were mainlyydlutotaiy^,s ‘ A^ shaving and brushing teeth;

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