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MONGAUP VALLEY - Two years of drained water, resources and hopes ended triumphantly on Saturday, when Alliance Energy Renewables reopened public access to the Swinging Bridge Reservoir. Sullivan County's largest public boating lake had been closed since May 2005 while engineers repaired a large sinkhole in the reservoir's dam. In the interim, Alliance bought the property from a bankrupt Mirant (plus the Toronto, Mongaup Falls and Rio reservoirs) and set about accelerating the timetable.

It's taken more than two years, but starting Saturday people will once again be allowed to boat and swim in the Swinging Bridge Reservoir in Mongaup Valley. The announcement comes from Alliance Energy, which bought the reservoir, dam and its hydroelectric plant in May from Mirant. The nine-mile-long reservoir is the largest lake in Sullivan County, aside from the New York City reservoirs, and it's one of two motorboat lakes in the county.