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Consent Decrees Against Iroquois Millennium Pipeline Companies

  1. DOJ Press Release, May 23, 1996
  2. Federal Register Notice, June 24, 1996
  3. DEC Consent Order Re Millennium, Feb. 2, 2009

DEC’s Comments to FERC

  1. DEC’s comments on scope of work for EIS, Nov. 6, 2012
  2. DEC’s general comment on DEIS, April 7, 2014

Extreme Weather Events

  1. NYS Conservationist, Perfect Storm, Aug. 2012 About Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011
  2. NY Magazine, Please God Stop the Rain, Aug. 19, 2012
  3. OAG, Extreme Rainfall Across NYS, Sept. 2014
  4. Delaware County All-Hazard Mitigation
    Delaware County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, 2013 (PDF)
  5. NYSERDA, Responding to Climate Change in New York State (ClimAID) Nov 2011, with 2014 Supplements

DEC denies 401 Water Quality Certification

  1. DEC Denial of 401 WQC, April 22, 2016
  2. DEC Press Release, April 22, 2016
  3. Constitution Pipeline Co, LLC v. N.Y.S. Dep’t of Env’t Conservation, 868 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2017).
    DEC’s denial of Constitution’s application for a 401 water quality certification is upheld August 18, 2017

Constitution resubmits its application for a 401 water quality certification on May 30, 2025

DEC’s letter to Army Corp, June 23, 2025

Other Resources Regarding Water Quality Impacts

Chesapeake Bay Comprehensive Water Resources and Restoration Plan: Final State of New York, annex, January 2021
See, for example, Section 2.1.2 on Priority Restoration Efforts for Brook Trout Habitats

Effects of Anthropogenic Stream Alteration on Brown Trout Habitat, Movement and Hydrology Tyler Jeffrey Ross, August 2012 (PDF)

USFWS Upper Susquehanna Comprehensive Flood Damage Reduction Study
Prepared For: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Prepared By: Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New York Field Office Cortland, New York
February 2019
“This report discusses watershed restoration flood mitigation methods that both reduce flood flows and are environmentally restorative. They are designed to restore and protect habitat and water quality, while also providing flood water reduction in some flood prone areas.” P. 1.

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