Requiring the posting of current and planned water supply outages to the city’s website and to the website of the dept of environmental protection.

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the posting of current and planned water supply outages to the city’s website and to the website of the department of environmental protection

This bill would require the online posting of notifications about current and planned water service outages on the city’s website as well as the website of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Currently, real-time information about water outages is generally not provided online. Complaints to 311 are logged but no other information is provided in the normal course of business about planned or emergency outages and estimated times for service restoration. The proposed law would address this problem but would not replace DEP’s current practice of posting flyers in affected areas.