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...hero is Captain Ron Gatto of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Watershed Police. Since 1905 New York City has employed an environmental police force to protect the 1,969 sq. mi. (5,100 sq km) of watersheds that feed the city's upstate drinking-water reservoirs. DEP, which came into being in 1978, has the authority to enforce laws against polluting the watersheds. But records show that prior to 1989, DEP's police never arrested a single polluter. A succession of New York City governments apparently didn't want to antagonize upstate landowners, who wielded great power...
...DEP patrolman bridled at the practice of leaving polluters unmolested. Ron Gatto is a burly fireplug of a man with 21-in. (53-cm) biceps. He once bench-pressed a trophy-winning 575 lbs. (261 kg). Gatto grew up in Westchester County, just north of New York City. He joined the police in 1982 to fight the polluters who were despoiling the green landscapes and the reservoirs he had fished as a boy. Instead, he recalls, his bosses had him drive around and chase swimmers...
...hospital and a prison for discharging raw sewage into the reservoirs. But a superior pocketed the citations, Gatto says, and they were never delivered. Undaunted, Gatto reported the incident in a hearing before the New York City Council president. His courageous testimony in October 1991 finally forced DEP to get serious about arresting polluters...
Vice Presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03 sported the Don Johnson look with a Miami-Vice-ish ensemble complete with the open-collar olive shirt and coifed hair. The Driskell-Burton ticket went business and Sterling P. A. Darling '01 went just a little easier on the Dep gel. He even shed his jacket at the podium. (Maybe the council really does pay attention to our humble comments here at The Crimson...
Polaroid also was asked to obtain a Cambridge Historical Commission permit for development at the site. In addition, the site will be subject to state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) review because the property abuts the Charles River...