“If the proposal goes through, Propublica reports that “the state would allow drilling near aqueducts but would require a site-specific environmental review for any application to drill within 1,000 feet of the water supply infrastructure.” In other words, all that would stand between legal drilling within hundreds of feet of crucial water supply tunnels would be a state environmental review.”
New Rules Would Allow Fracking Within 1,000 Ft of NYC’s Main Water Supply Tunnels via Brian Merchant – Treehugger