Leaking aqueduct swamping homes

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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/.../NEWS/803260332

By Paul Brooks

Times Herald-Record

March 26, 2008

WAWARSING — Water spits from the cracks in the concrete basement floor of Wayde and Julianne Lennon's house on Route 209. The pumps hum.

Up the road, water erupts in spasms from a 3-inch black, plastic hose. It runs from the pump in David Lorenzo's basement and into the ditch along the road. He has four pumps and rotates them to keep up.

Hmmmm, I wonder where this hydrant water comes from?

Edited March 26, 2008 by jack10562
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Their is a chamber in Chelsea that NYC began working on. The biggest leak they say is on Orange County side of the Hudson but they must enter from the Dutchess side. This apparently is not as easy to fix as people think. First NYC is trying to make sure that when they shut the Delaware aqueduct down they have a another source of water for NYC. The Delaware aqueduct provides 60% of the water to NYC.

They when have to pump the billions of gallons of water out of the pipe into the Hudson River. This should be some sight to see. Then they are going to go down 700 feet drive 1 1/2 miles under the river to the Orange County side to fix the leak that is allowing about 15 million gallons a day to escape the aqueduct.

700 foot hole in the ground, can't wait for that confined rescue...

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<br />Their is a chamber in Chelsea that NYC began working on. The biggest leak they say is on Orange County side of the Hudson but they must enter from the Dutchess side. This apparently is not as easy to fix as people think. First NYC is trying to make sure that when they shut the Delaware aqueduct down they have a another source of water for NYC. The Delaware aqueduct provides 60% of the water to NYC.<br /><br />They when have to pump the billions of gallons of water out of the pipe into the Hudson River. This should be some sight to see. Then they are going to go down 700 feet drive 1 1/2 miles under the river to the Orange County side to fix the leak that is allowing about 15 million gallons a day to escape the aqueduct.<br /><br />700 foot hole in the ground, can't wait for that confined rescue...<br />

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Another item of fear I've heard mentioned is the possibility of a major collapse when they actually do the shutdown. They have sent a remote controlled submarine with a video camera on board, and have pictures of the interior walls of the aqueduct. This is not new. the have been working on thisa for several years. But there are a lot of things they need to take into consideration. Ths is going to bea BIG job.

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Initial estimates on the Chelsea site is at least 15 years to complete I wouldn't doubt it will go longer.

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I've reviewed the entire 170 page Revised Environmental Assessment Forms for the project and it's going to be monumental. Any agencies that would respond to emergency incidents in the operating theater should have copies and understand what is expected of them. It's some VERY interesting reading.

The findings with the sub were a bit more distressing than they first led on. Yes, they had known about a significant leak in Orange County (among others) which seems to have spawned a marsh. Ironically they have to treat that wetland just like a natural one in terms of the DEC's requirements for wetlands conservation. Even considering the leaks that are known or suspected, the sub took two more hours to get through than they had predicted. Turns out it had slammed into something, which broke off the "feelers" that kept it centered in the tunnel. It spent the rest of the trip dragging against the wall. Best they can tell from the time of impact is that there is a "misallignment" of the tunnel where it passes - get a load of this - UNDER ROUTE 9 in Fishkill. They've since started preparing another draft EAF which I haven't seen yet.

Here's a NY Times article about the sub project NY TIMES

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Doc where can you get a copy of that report from?

Thanks for the article that you linked to

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Wow, I am surprised I hadn't heard about any of this before, even though it would seem as many have said, this has been ongoing for a while. Cannot wait to hear how they go about this, and when they do.