Water
High Hazard Dams in New York State
This map shows Class "C", "High Hazard" dams: A dam failure may result in widespread or serious damage to home(s); damage to main highways, industrial or commercial buildings, railroads, and/or important utilities, including water supply, sewage treatment, fuel, power, cable or telephone infrastructure; or substantial environmental damage; such that the loss of human life or widespread substantial economic loss is likely.
North Albany Water Purification Plant
The North Plant is located in Menands and is designed to treat an average daily flow of 35 MGD. That is equal to 87 Olympic Swimming Pools worth of water.
What Sewage Treatment and Brewing Have in Common
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.
Water Pollution Control Plant, International Paper, Ticonderoga
Eastern Hellbender
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.