An Air of Permanent Mourning
The polarization between city and country is an old story, but now it is entrenched in the upstate communities that were sacrificed to provide water to the downstate metropolis.
Luc Sante
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This is the third installment in a four-part series on the reservoirs of upstate New York. Constructed to supply water to New York City, these feats of engineering exemplify the social compact that undergirds ambitious public infrastructures even as they intensify divisions between city and country, wealth and poverty.
Angler at Pepacton Reservoir, 2020. [Tim Davis]
New York City, its population ever expanding through the decades, continually needed more drinking water, having exhausted its local supply by the early 19th century. Between the 1830s and the end of that century, the Board of Water Supply built the Croton System of twelve reservoirs in Westchester County just north of the city, but construction barely kept pace with demand. As the 20th century da
CAMDEN Shaneka Boucher isn t shy about telling people why she s on Camden s City Council. I experience all the same things, she said, as the residents she represents. That s the reason I do the work I do, because we experience it like everyone else.
And in Camden s First Ward, which includes Fairview, Bergen Square, Morgan Village and South Camden, it means the noise, trucks, smells and air pollution that come from all the heavy industry concentrated in and around those neighborhoods.
On the morning of Jan. 29, that also meant a smoky, smelly fire at EMR Recycling that forced residents to either shelter in place or to leave their homes.
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Shawn LaTourette is acting commissioner at the Department of Environmental Protection.
New Jersey’s top environmental official says he will not be involved with permitting decisions by the Department of Environmental Protection on a plan to build a South Jersey port that would include the state’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal.
Acting Commissioner Shawn LaTourette filed a document on Jan. 25 recusing himself from 16 matters before the DEP including the Repauno site at Gibbstown in Gloucester County, which is being redeveloped by Delaware River Partners, a client of LaTourette’s when he was an attorney in private practice.
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In the last 20 years, but especially since Superstorm Sandy, the mouth of Nantuxent Creek has become dangerously shallow. At the top of the image, around the second bend of the creek, is where the oyster fleet’s docks are located.
For more than a decade, Cumberland County’s oystermen have faced a cruel irony at Nantuxent Creek, Money Island, home to the fleet’s most important offloading port during the spring and summer oyster season.
On the highest tides, access to the docks scattered along the creek is impossible, due to flooding that overtakes the only road into Money Island. On the lowest tides, the creek mouth becomes so shallow that the fleet is left stranded inside, unable to reach the bay for several precious hours.