Check out this awesome video about the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance. Riverkeeper and other partners helped to form the Alliance, a new citizen-led group, in 2015. Its formation and work to date has been influenced by Riverkeeper’s ongoing community science water quality monitoring project in […]
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An egret alights amid floating trash contained by a boom in the Bronx River. (Photos: Leah Rae / Riverkeeper)
A sulphurous stench becomes overpowering as you move up Westchester Creek, one of the New York City waterways that Riverkeeper is now able to explore with a new shallow-draft boat. “Just hold your breath for the next 25 minutes,” our boat captain John Lipscomb says. […]
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For some, living a few hundred feet from a rail yard can be an extraordinary nuisance; for residents of the Ezra Prentice Homes, it’s a constant reminder of the significant environmental threats being posed daily to the health and safety of their community.
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Please TAKE ACTION BY 5 PM TODAY (June 30): Add your voice and request public meetings on the Coast Guard’s plan to add anchorage grounds for commercial vessels along the Hudson River Estuary. The public should have the chance to fully understand the rationale behind […]
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In June 2016, Riverkeeper and our partners took water samples at over 350 locations, including a pilot project to explore sampling the Upper Hudson River in partnership with Jarrett Engineers and SUNY Cobleskill – providing our first-ever snapshot of water quality in the 150 miles […]
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Riverkeeper regularly patrols the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and we sometimes bring members of the public along to see the pollution here – one of the worst polluted waterways in the nation. Riverkeeper’s boat captain John Lipscomb gives a tour in this “Facebook Live” video. […]
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A water sample from the Upper Hudson River. (Photo by Dan Shapley / Riverkeeper)
This map will be updated with the latest sampling results. Upper Hudson River Watershed sampling in 2016 is in partnership with Jarrett Engineers, SUNY Cobleskill and our longtime collaborators at CUNY Queens and Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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Beckett Lansbury processes samples from the Esopus Creek. (Photo by Dan Shapley / Riverkeeper)
Riverkeeper’s June sampling is underway, with Capt. John Lipscomb and Carol Knudson of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on patrol from New York City to Ossining, and community scientists gathering samples from all around New York City (a project coordinated by the New York City Water Trail […]
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This year, as part of the 2016 Riverkeeper Sweep, comprehensive data was collected at 4 Sweep projects to get a deeper sense of the composition of marine debris on the Hudson River Estuary.
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The East River between Randall’s Island and Throgs Neck is a bit of old New York, and not in a good way: Waterfront property is largely a mix of industrial and derelict, with LaGuardia hurtling airplanes aloft at a remarkable rate, and the notorious Rikers […]
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