by Shayla Love A pin oak tree lives on Jerome Avenue, where it meets 213th Street. The roots of this tree go deep. They extend under the cement sidewalk and into the soil of the Bronx’s past, before the words “filtration plant” had ever been uttered.
by Hayley Camacho Although start-up and testing recently began in one part of the Croton Water Filtration Plant, it will not be until next April when the rest of the plant begins testing as well, with a solid operational date nowhere in sight. The news has outraged Bronxites who looked forward to the re-opening of […]
By JANAKI CHADHA Community advocacy for the building of a pedestrian bridge over the Major Deegan Expressway to connect the two sides of Van Cortlandt Park has gone on for over a decade. On May 8, community leaders and representatives announced $12 million has been allocated for the proposed bridge, thanks to collective efforts from […]
By MOSES BUSTOS At the latest Croton Facilities Monitoring Committee (CFMC) on April 20, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a 3.24 percent water and sewer rate increase for the 2016 fiscal year. The agency, which has oversight on the long-overdue Croton Water Filtration Plant project, has passed the cost to […]
by David Cruz And the costs just keep on climbing.
Following the discovery of trolley tracks beneath the surface of Webster Avenue, the Department of Environmental Protection is exploring new options for routing a waste water pipe from the Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park to the South Bronx.
One of the primary contractors that worked on the enormous Croton Water Filtration Plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park admitted on Monday to committing fraud in reporting its sub-contracting of minority and women-owned businesses. Schiavone Construction, which performed much of the tunneling and trucking during the early phases of the filtration plant project, agreed to pay the federal government $20 million in penalties. The company now doing the bulk of the construction work on the filtration plant, Skanska, is also under investigation for similar misdeeds.
Bernard Daly, the project manager for the city's massive water filtration plant project under way in Van Cortlandt Park, is relentlessly upbeat. Despite the cost overruns, delays, federal fines and accusations of impropriety in the siting of the plant on public parkland, Daly looks out over the sheer vastness of the $3 billion undertaking and beams.
The problems with local school overcrowding and the Croton Water Filtration Plant are well-documented and, unfortunately, not going away any time soon.
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