David Walker
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David Walker Walker
The endless tug-of-war between New York City, and residents of the city's upstate watershed, gets played out daily in Angela and David Walker's home. Mr. Walker is an operating engineer who works under the streets of Manhattan, digging New York's third water tunnel. The Walkers' home, a woodsy cabin just downstream from the mammoth Pepacton Reservoir, has been flooded at least five times in the last few years, and now, like many others in this rural corner of Delaware County more than 120 miles from New York, blame the city for holding so much water in its reservoirs that a big rain or snowmelt can cause devastating floods.