Operations return to normal at upstate NY reservoir

DEPOSIT, N.Y. (AP) — New York City officials say operations have returned to normal at an upstate reservoir as they work to permanently plug a leak near its dam.

Officials say that drinking water diversions and downstream releases from the Cannonsville Reservoir will be reduced to normal levels beginning Sunday. They say repair work has successfully halted the turbid discharge below the dam.

Workers drilling boring holes for a hydroelectric plant in an embankment near the dam accidentally created the leak in early July.

About a billion gallons of water a day have been drained from the reservoir west of the Catskill Mountains.