A new stretch of open water surrounded by breathtaking scenery will be available for recreational boating at the Cannonsville Reservoir this summer.

New York City Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway announced that the additional five square miles of Cannonsville Reservoir will be open at the start of this year’s boating season May 28.

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http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_085040027.html

New York City is acquiring an additional 685 acres of land for watershed protection, New York City Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Michael Saucier said earlier this month

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http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_071081651.html

The whole natural gas question in this country is a complicated one. On one hand, we have oodles of the stuff, it’s relatively low carbon, and it would seem to be a sensible pillar of our country’s energy future. On the other hand, extracting it from Mother Earth does nasty stuff to the water supply. How nasty? Check out this video shot in Fort Lupton, Colorado, a little town just north of Denver’s northernmost suburban sprawl.

 http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/10/14/new-trend-flammable-tap-water/

The NYC DEP opens land to recreational uses without city permit. See the article below from The Daily Star’s website

A New York City Department of Environmental Protection permit will no longer be needed to access approximately 13,000 acres of city-owned land in the Catskills. 

http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_315040015.html