The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is looking for nine college students or graduating high school seniors (who are going on to college) for its summer internship program. The interns will be assigned to various upstate locations in the department’s Bureau of Water Supply.

Interns will be placed in assignments that focus on engineering and scientific disciplines and will include tasks in water supply and wastewater treatment operations, water quality, watershed protection, and administration.

Read the full announcement after the break.

NYC DEP Announces Internship Opportunities for College Students
Program Envisions Development of Personnel Resources to Lead the Water Supply in the Future

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that its Bureau of Water Supply (BWS) is sponsoring a summer internship program for nine college students and graduating high school seniors who are presently enrolled in accredited college programs. The interns are expected to be assigned to six different DEP facilities in Delaware, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. The internships run from early June 2009 until late August 2009, depending upon the academic calendar of each intern.

Interns will be placed in assignments that focus on engineering and scientific disciplines and will include tasks in water supply and wastewater treatment operations, water quality, watershed protection, and administration.

“This program is designed to encourage watershed area college students to consider a career with DEP. New York City is committed to maintaining filtration avoidance of its Catskill/Delaware water supply over the long haul. Hiring employees with local roots to become future leaders at DEP is one way to strengthen our partnership with watershed communities,” said Paul Rush, DEP’s Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Water Supply.

State Senator John Bonacic said, “When local students intern at the DEP, they bring with them their personal knowledge of living in the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Nobody is more committed to a clean environment than the people of the Catskills and Hudson Valley, which is why we choose to live here.”

Students interested in this opportunity should submit résumés to: New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply, P.O. Box 358, Grahamsville, NY 12740 by May 1, 2009.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has a long history of working closely with communities and strengthening its ongoing education and outreach programs to promote stewardship of New York City’s water resources. With this internship program, DEP will provide students with the opportunity to explore, study, and participate in the important work performed, largely by watershed residents, to provide drinking water to nine million people.

DEP is responsible for operating and protecting the City’s water supply system, one of the largest in the world, which serves nearly eight million residents of the City and one million people in Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Ulster Counties, as well as the millions of tourists and commuters who visit the City every year. The watershed of the City’s 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes includes parts of eight counties on both sides of the Hudson River – Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster in the Catskill Region, and Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester Counties east of the Hudson.