of recent origin York City has foun...

of recent origin York City has found a way to patronize the quality of its drinking water without spending billions upon a new water filtration method

A recent filtration avoidance determination issued at the EPA and effective until April 2002 allows the city to defend the quality of its drinking water at preventing pollution at the source.

The determination involves the Catskill/Delaware watershed, which consists of 19 upstate reservoirs supplying an average of 14 billion gpd to 9 million family in New York and its suburb

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Gov George Pataki, representatives of more than 60 watershed towns and counties and a coalition of environmentalists agreed to cooperate in implementation of the plan.

The plan calls for land acquisition to allow the city to potentially more than triple its holdings to about 10 percent of the watershed land. Additionally, implementation of fresh regulations is intended to fortify the watershed, ...