NAPANOCH – On a day with biting wind and a sky that alternated between sun and flurries of snow, residents of Napanoch gathered outside the local firehouse to discuss their harrowing experience with the DEP's leaking aqueduct and the yearly floods that have resulted — all while a film crew's cameras rolled.

The crew — comprised of Producer Henry Schipper, Director of Photography Paul Dougherty, and Sound Technician Tom Staton — had come to the Napanoch Firehouse this past Sunday to give residents a forum to air their grievances about the floods, an issue which has begun receiving nationwide exposure over the last few weeks with an article in the New York Times and a feature on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Schipper, Dougherty, and Staton themselves are exploring the effects of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) leaking Delaware Aqueduct for their tentatively titled two-hour special, Collapse, which may be broadcast on the History Channel as early as May of 2009.   >  MORE...

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