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.
Water
What Sewage Treatment and Brewing Have in Common
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
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
Major NY Watersheds
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.