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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

• eight positions will be added to the Bureau of Water Supply to oversee and manage the contracts and upgrades of approximately 115 non-City owned wastewater treatment plants located within the upstate a, storage watershed. These positions will also review other watershed projects to ensure their compliance with drcement stormwater regulations ($0.4 million). nagement tie related Productivity and Restructuring Initiatives 'Jew York , ; / [ pal Water • the Department'will evaluate various interim strategies that ensure continued compliance with current State nitrogen discharge limits prior to implementation of the City’s long-term Comprehensive Nitrogen Management Plan for its wastewater treatment facilities. 'To ensure compliance DEP will hire twenty- six employees, at an annual cost of $1.2 million, for various nitrogen removal projects.

operating Public/Priyate Competition imitments : funds for / • DEP expects to expand its program to privatize the reading of water meters to the boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens via cooperative agreements with public utilities or other contractors that will incorporate water meter readings as part of their operations. The reading of customers’ meters in Staten Island and the Bronx will continue to be performed by private vendors, IS the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operation will contract with private vendors who will carry the materials to upstate iCB), and froni cleaning the City’s 140,000 catch basins tb landfills located outside of the City. data used the Department will continue to contract for sewer dragging services for Springfield Gardens in Queens andTor the Third Avenue in Brooklyn to alleviate the accumulation of silt during 2002. , performs aality, and • the Department will continue managing its successful program regarding the disposal of dewatered sludge lion. The (or biosolids) produced from the City’s wastewater treatment plants (WTPs). Through private vendors, 001. Thib the biosolids are transported throughout the country for beneficial use (i.e. compost and fertilizer).

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