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Queens boards approve DEPsite selection for Newtown Creek CSO tunnel with conditions
Summary
DEP presented plans for a 3+ mile, 50-million-gallon Newtown Creek CSO storage tunnel and associated diversion facilities; community boards 2 and 5 approved site selection and acquisition with conditions after questions about traffic, noise, aesthetics and environmental protections. The board vote passed following a motion to approve with CB2 conditions.
The Department of Environmental Protection asked the Queens borough board to approve site selection and acquisition steps tied to a long-term plan to reduce combined sewer overflow (CSO) into Newtown Creek.
Kate Edin, project manager for the Newtown Creek CSO storage tunnel, described the core project: a more-than-3-mile tunnel with roughly 50,000,000 gallons of storage designed to capture overflow from the four largest outfalls along Newtown Creek ("about 90% of the flow," she said) and send it by gravity to the Newtown Creek wastewater resource recovery facility for treatment after storms. Edin noted the project is driven by a consent order with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation requiring reductions in CSO.
David Lee of DEP/DCP explained the land-use actions needed to implement the project: two…
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