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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Efficiency improvements and cost management strategies
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Commissioner Aggarwala outlines DEP's efforts to improve efficiency and manage costs across its operations.
- DEP is implementing digitally-enabled operations (SCADA systems) at water treatment plants to increase accuracy and allow for better deployment of skilled labor.
- A smart sewer program is being initiated, starting with the installation of 200 sewer monitors this year.
- The $3 billion Newtown Creek tunnel project has been redesigned to be more effective, with state approval for the modification.
- DEP is focusing on getting multiple benefits from all investments, balancing flooding concerns with mandated harbor water quality improvements.
Rohit Aggarwala
0:27:05
We are working towards this on several fronts.
0:27:07
We are in the midst of a major effort to increase digitally enabled operations called SCADA systems at our wharfs.
0:27:15
This should allow us to operate more accurately and to redeploy our skilled labor to the kind of preventative maintenance that we most need to focus on.
0:27:22
We're beginning a smart sewer program to make the best use of our existing sewers.
0:27:27
This begins with the installation of 200 sewer monitors this year.
0:27:32
For our $3,000,000,000 Newtown Creek tunnel required under our long term control plan and part of the Newtown Creek Superfund, our engineers identified ways to redesign that project to make it far more effective.
0:27:44
I'm pleased the state DEC approved that modification.
0:27:46
I want to thank you council member Ressler for your support and also note the support of Riverkeeper for that modification.
0:27:53
Going forward we will need to consider carefully how we can get multiple benefits from all our investments.
0:27:59
It's important to note that while I believe your constituents are often talking to you about flooding, our largest investments going forward will be to comply with mandates about water quality in the harbor.