P R E S S R E L E A S E For more information: Town of Saugerties: Vernon Benjamin, 845-901-2903 or [email protected] Riverkeeper: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x239 or [email protected] Riverkeeper Featured at Lower Esopus Forum and Workshop Ashokan Reservoir Turbid Water Discharges into the Lower Esopus Creek 7 p.m. Monday, July 14 Senior Citizen Center - Market Street - Saugerties NY Hudson Riverkeeper’s Watershed Program Director Katherine Hudson and Village of Saugerties Trustee Patrick Landewe will discuss the Ashokan Reservoir turbid water discharges and ways that citizens can impact the environmental review of the discharges at the Lower Esopus Community Forum and Workshop at the Seniors Center on Market Street in Saugerties at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 14 Town of Saugerties Supervisor Greg Helsmoortel will welcome the participants to the evening’s discussion. The hands-on forum and workshop will assist citizens to become involved by writing letters that must be considered in the environmental review process currently underway involving the New York City Department of Environmental Protection operations of the Ashokan Reservoir. Advocates—which include the sponsors of the Forum—claim that the discharging of turbid waters badly impacts the natural habitats, fishing, recreational uses, farming, and enjoyment of the Lower Esopus Creek, which enters the Hudson River at Saugerties. The upstream towns of Ulster, Hurley and Marbletown, and the City of Kingston are also impacted. Landewe is representing the Village of Saugerties in this environmental review. He is also the Saugerties Lighthouse Keeper and, in that position, saw the immediate impacts of the brown water discharges that severely impacted the Lower Esopus estuary following Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Kate Hudson brings twenty-five years of government service to the environment in her Riverkeeper role. She was a member of the NYS Attorney General’s Hudson River Team responsible for preparing the natural resource damage claim against General Electric, for their contamination of the Hudson River with PCBs. A Q&A session and a workshop to help participants draft their own comments to influence the scope of the environmental review will follow the presentations. The event is sponsored by the Town and Village of Saugerties, Hudson Riverkeeper, Esopus Creek Conservancy, and the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:28:02 +0000
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