New Commissioner at DEP

Emily Lloyd has taken the helm at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed her last month to replace Christopher Ward, who left last fall.

The department oversees large environmental remediation projects, and plays a central role on environmental aspects of major construction projects handled by other agencies, including the Department of Transportation and the N.Y.C. Economic Development Corporation.

One of the biggest current jobs is construction of the $1.2 billion Croton Filter Plant in the Bronx. The five-year job has already stalled a few times since it broke ground late last year, because of litigation from groups opposing the siting of the plant. If built, the plant would filter 293 million gallons of water daily from the city's system. Schiavone Construction of Secaucus, N.J., is general contractor on the plant, which would be built under the Mosholu Golf Course in Van Cortlandt Park.

Lloyd was commissioner of the city's Department of Sanitation from 1992 to 1994 and was an executive v.p. for government and community affairs at Columbia University. She also had been director of business development at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.