Byline: JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST Staff Writer
GUILDERLAND - What do you get when you combine a 20-foot airboat with a faulty gas gauge, three reporters, and an engineer?
Plenty of time to talk about the future of the Watervliet Reservoir. "The reservoir is going to be about this high," Jim Besha said, holding his hand at shoulder level to his 6-foot frame as he stood in the swamp boat, going nowhere fast.
The trip was a press junket gone slightly awry, but with the craft's 5-foot propeller blade still, the silence gave Besha a perfect opportunity to make his pitch.
Besha, president of Albany Engineering, the firm hired to study Watervliet's effort to nearly double the daily yield of its reservoir in Guilderland - 430 water-covered acres of …
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