WEST TRENTON – A long-anticipated vote, by the Delaware River Basin Commission, on the Flexible Flow Management Program for New York City reservoirs, has been postponed to no earlier than the December meeting.  The vote was originally scheduled for today.

Yesterday, the DRBC posted a brief addendum to its announcement of today’s meeting, saying they were rescheduling the vote to “…more fully consider the proposed Water Code Amendments for implementation of a Flexible Flow Management Program for the New York City Delaware Basin Reservoirs”.

The plan, if implemented, would regulate how much water New York City could store in its three giant reservoirs in the Catskills. 

Today’s DRBC meeting, in West Trenton, will include a report by the chair of the Commission’s Flood Advisory Committee; and a report on the status of development of the Flood Analysis Model, a project commenced in August 2007 at the request of the governors of the four Basin states, in accordance with a recommendation of the Interstate Flood Mitigation Task Force.