NEWBURGH – Adam Bosch, Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress president and CEO for the last three years, is stepping down from his post at the end of the year and returning to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

He will be assuming “a senior leadership role” at the agency that provides the water supply for the City of New York via a network of reservoirs and pipelines that originate in the Catskills and Hudson Valley.

Prior to joining Pattern – the research and think-tank organization – the Ulster County resident served as a spokesman for the water supply system.

Mary Beth Bianconi, chairwoman of Pattern’s Board, said under Bosch’s leadership, the agency “tackled many of the region’s most pressing quality-of-life concerns through ground-breaking research and robust communication.”

The Pattern Board has formed a search committee to lead the process of selecting the organization’s next president and CEO.