Q&A
Challenges to maintaining the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD)
1:35:44
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111 sec
DEP officials discuss the main challenges to maintaining the Filtration Avoidance Determination, focusing on the critical role of Kensico Reservoir and emerging threats.
- Kensico Reservoir is identified as a key potential point of failure for the FAD
- Increasing wildlife populations and extreme weather events pose new challenges
- Climate change and evolving water quality standards are impacting the future of the FAD
James F. Gennaro
1:35:44
Thank you for your good efforts.
1:35:49
With regard to the continuation of the FAD commissioner, what is the perspective of the regulator in this case, state DOH, you interact with them and in terms of threat to the fad, would would would you put the Kansugo high on that list of things that you're concerned about?
Rohit T Aggarwala
1:36:19
Well, look, Kensko, as you've described, Kensko to a certain extent is is one of the key potential points of failure and has been since the beginning.
1:36:30
Right?
1:36:31
And you know, as as I mentioned in the testimony, the dramatic increase in wildlife has the potential coupled with extreme storms or particularly periods of drought that accumulate a lot of stuff that then gets followed by an extreme storm to flush contaminants into Kansko, kind of at the at the point in the system that we are at least well equipped to deal with it because upstate, of course, we have lots of reservoirs.
1:37:06
One of them gets turbid.
1:37:07
We turn it off.
1:37:08
Right.
1:37:09
Right.
1:37:09
We let it settle.
1:37:10
We can use one of the others.
1:37:12
We only have 1 Kensco.
1:37:14
And so that is why it continues to be, and probably the changes that we are seeing in terms of of water quality standards, climate change, and changing wildlife populations.
1:37:29
Probably makes Kenseko even more outsized as we think about the future of the fact.
