Golfers who use the driving range at Mosholu Golf Course will have to practice their swings elsewhere for the foreseeable future.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, usually an outspoken critic of the water filtration plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park, sat mostly silent during a meeting two weeks ago of the Croton Facility Monitoring Committee, which oversees the filter plant project.

Responding to increasing pressure to create more jobs in the northwest Bronx during the construction of the Croton Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park, the head of the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said the agency would fulfill promises it made to the community and find ways to place more local residents in construction unions.

In 2003, when the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) was calculating the cost of building the controversial Croton Water Filtration Plant at Van Cortlandt Park, it vastly underestimated the project's final price tag which now stands at more than $2 billion.

The more than $200 million in Bronx parks funding promised by city officials in exchange for siting a controversial water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park, has begun to change the local landscape. Fences and bulldozers can be found in most local parks and more are on the way. Following is a rundown of where the various park projects in Community District 7 and the Norwood News readership area stand:

When the city and local politicians tried to sell Norwood residents on a plan to build the massive Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park, they offered two benefits in exchange for years of traffic interruptions, lost parkland, and increased air pollution - $240 million in Bronx park renovations and the promise of jobs for local residents. The park renovations are under way now.

The committee set up by the City Council to monitor the construction of the water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park has a new look, leaving the immediate community's sole representative owith concerns that it will lose a critical local perspective.

The $200 million fund created to improve Bronx parks in connection with the construction of the Croton water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park has already been put to good use in local green spaces.

As blasting continues in Van Cortlandt Park, and the hole in the former driving range deepens, one environmental group holds out hope that it can convince a an appeals court that there is a better filtration technology than the one the city is planning to use.