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PlaNYC and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Role in a Greener, Greater New York--Carter H. Strickland, Jr. and Christopher M. Hawkins
PlaNYC and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Role in a Greener, Greater New York--Carter H. Strickland, Jr. and Christopher M. Hawkins
Pages 94-106
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Hawkins New York City Department of Environmental Protection ABSTRACT Viable solutions for more livable cities of the future must consider three pillars of sustainability: the public's quality of life, the environment, and the economy. On Earth Day, April 22, 2007, New York City released PlaNYC, its far-reaching sustainability plan to prepare the city for significant population growth, strengthen its economy, address climate change, and enhance quality of life for the city's residents.
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The board 10,000,000 9,119,811 9,000,000 8,692,564 8,402,213 7,894,798 8,008,278 7,891,957 8,000,000 7,454,995 7,783,314 7,322,564 6,930,446 7,000,000 7,071,639 6,000,000 5,620,048 5,000,000 4,766,883 4,000,000 3,437,202 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,515,301 1,206,299 942,292 1,000,000 813,669 515,547 312,710 202,589 33,131 60,515 96,373 123,706 0 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 FIGURE 1 Historic and Projected Population of New York City, 1790–2030. Source: NYC Department of City Planning.
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Since the 17th century when the first Dutch settlers began to colonize the islands, New York City has prioritized the search for ever more plentiful and reliable sources of water to fight fires, improve sanitation and public health, and accommodate a growing population. Today, the city's 2,000-square-mile watershed contains 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes, and water is delivered from more than 125 miles away.
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These investments have helped New York City maintain its ability to provide unfiltered drinking water and eliminated the need to build a multibillion-dollar water filtration plant, while keeping the city's drinking water clean, reliable, and affordable. Water Delivery and Treatment The city continues to invest in the critical infrastructure that delivers more than 1 billion gallons of water per day to more than 9 million New Yorkers.3 The Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts currently deliver all of the city's drinking water to the in-city distribution system.
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In 2007, the city began construction on the $3.2 billion Croton Water Filtration Plant in the Bronx. The city completed two water tunnels linking the plant to the New Croton Aqueduct in February 2011 and expects to begin operating the plant by the end of 2013.
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Harbor Water Over the past decade New York City has invested more than $10 billion to successfully improve water quality in the harbor. A $5 billion upgrade at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant will increase both the amount of pollution removed from the wastewater and the plant's treatment capacity from 620 to 700 million gallons per day in wet weather.
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Artificial Wetlands (the Bluebelt System) and Green Infrastructure First developed on Staten Island and now used in Queens and the Bronx, the bluebelt system provides ecologically sound, cost-effective stormwater management by preserving streams, ponds, and other wetland areas that collect stormwater runoff from the streets and temporarily detain or permanently retain it.
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This approach provides the city with an adaptive and scalable toolkit of green infrastructure systems that can manage stormwater under, alongside, and on top of all varieties of urban structures. Green roofs and blue roofs are an ideal strategy for highly urbanized areas where buildings occupy a significant portion of urban land area (up to 45.5 percent in New York City)
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Blue Roof, (C) Porous Pavement, (D)
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ENERGY New York City's energy and emissions goals include a more than 25 percent reduction in energy consumption by 2017 and a 30 percent reduction by 2030. To that end, DEP is helping to develop alternative and renewable energy supply projects (e.g., the city's largest array of solar panels on the Port Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant)
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After finalizing a contract with National Grid, DEP expects to begin construction in 2013 and put the system into operation by 2014. AIR QUALITY As the agency responsible for regulating air quality, DEP has launched a number of initiatives, such as a comprehensive revision to the New York City Air Code, which has been updated in a piecemeal fashion since its promulgation in 1975.
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CONCLUSION The 2012 PlaNYC Progress Report showed that New York City has completed or made substantial progress on more than three-quarters of the milestones set forth in the 2011 version of PlaNYC. With responsibility for more than a quarter of the city's initiatives, DEP is proud to be making significant contributions to protect the city's public health and the environment by providing high-quality drinking water and collecting and treating wastewater.
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