Water

Cuba Lake to New Orleans

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Cuba Lake to New Orleans

Believe it or not, water from Cuba Lake in Allegheny County NY flows to the Orleans Creek, Allegheny River, Ohio River and ultimately the Mighty Mississippi River down by New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.

Albany Water Reservior Basins

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Albany Water Reservior Basins

Where the City of Albany gets it's water from -- the Alcove and Basic Reservoirs.

The Alcove Reservoir is not only a larger reservoir and basin, it also has much higher water quality due to land cover. The Basic Reservoir is connected to the Alcove Reservoir via pipeline and Silver Creek but used only occasionally due to lower water quality and quantity.

Eastern Hellbender

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Bill Hopkins, professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, talks about the eastern hellbender and their ecological importance.

Region 4 Combined Sewer Overflows

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The dataset represents the locations of combined sewer overflow (CSOs) outfall locations in DEC Region 4, specifically the Albany Pool. It also includes overflow detection capabilities of CSO communities and overflow frequency data within a specified timeframe.

Combined sewer systems (CSS) are sewer systems that are designed to collect storm water runoff, domestic sewage, and industrial wastewater in the same pipe and bring it to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) facilities. During rain events, when storm water enters the sewers, the capacity of the sewer system may be exceeded and the excess water will be discharged directly to a waterbody (rivers, streams, estuaries, and coastal waters). http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/48595.html

The cities of Albany, Troy, Cohoes, Rensselaer, Watervliet, and the Village of Green Island make up the partner communities in the Albany Pool Communities. Among the six communities there are nearly 100 CSO discharge points. The Albany and Rensselaer County Sewer Districts are connected to the CSO program through their State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permits, and are cooperating with the Pool communities in implementation of the Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) for the abatement of CSOs. Read more about this program at http://www.cdrpc.org/CSO.html.

Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Combined-Sewer-Overflows-CSOs-Beginning-2013/ephi-ffu6