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The small Kensico reservoir is critical to our lifestyle out of all proportion to its size.  Billions of gallons of water pass through it, billions of dollars are spent on upstate pollution control. We must protect our water when it is in the reservoir because it is not moving and it is not purified as much as in streams. It would take tens if not hundreds of years to recover from pollution. Filtration can't replace good water. .
 

According to the NYC Department of Environmental Preservation:

 "The Kensico Reservoir is the terminal reservoir for the City’s Catskill/Delaware water supply system.
Because it provides the last impoundment prior to Catskill/Delaware water entering the
City’s distribution system, this reservoir is of critical importance. Since the early 1990's, DEP has
prioritized watershed protection in the Kensico basin"

Read the DEP 2007 Long Term Water Protection Program Guide (PDF 2 mb)

  

Kensico Reservoir (left) Rye Lake (middle)  Airport (Right)

 
Our water has been purified on its
      journey from upstate.		 Rye Lake is a "holding pond" for the tap water
of millions of people in Westchester and NYC.  
 
Once in the lake, our water is not moving rapidly,
 and is in a very perilous state. 		Exhaust from large jets taking-off over
our drinking water, in combination with runoff,
chemical deicing spray and millions of gallons
 of jet fuel being burned should make
 Westchester County Airport Expansion
 a very short-sighted and dangerous idea.

http://www.epa.gov/region2/water/nycshed/protprs.htm#kensico

 

  

 



 
 

The only way to have safe affordable drinking water is to protect The Kensico from expansion of this airport. Airports are one of the most polluting industries in the world. Robert Kennedy, Jr. called the location of this airport an historical disaster.  There were 35 spills in one year alone. 400 gallons of petroleum were spilled into an outfall which discharges into the reservoir. Any expansion will increase the likelihood of accidents and spills.