Blog articles by Riverkeeper staff and supporters

Riverkeeper’s patrol vessel, the “R. Ian Fletcher” was captured amid heavy mist in this recent photo taken near Esopus Island. More

The final consent order dealing with NYC's unauthorized discharges of turbid, muddy water from its Ashokan Reservoir to the Lower Esopus Creek fails to protect homes, businesses or the environment. More

The New York State Department of Health Released draft revisions to New York City’s Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD). The document allows NYC to avoid filtering water it collects from watersheds in upstate New York for consumption in the City. It also requires NYC to acquire and preserve land and implement protective regulations in those upstate areas. More

The Hamlet of Leeds, on Catskill Creek, will be moving from an old septic system to municipal wastewater treatment. This community has suffered from pathogen pollution in its stretch of Catskill Creek including illegal dumping by a homeowner who did not want to repair and […] More

Less than one day before the government shutdown, EPA Region II staff stood with residents of Brooklyn to reveal the much-awaited cleanup plan for the Gowanus Canal, one of the most contaminated waterbodies in the nation. More

It’s time to start planning for replacing Indian Point’s 2000 megawatts of power. More

Riverkeeper Citizen Sampling now supported by New York State More

About 70 Riverkeeper volunteers, staff and partners joined together Saturday to clean the shoreline at Travic Cove, a gorgeous stretch of shoreline in the City of Peekskill, that will soon be opened to the public with a new pedestrian trail connecting Charles Point and Riverfront […] More

The federal Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently proposed revised oil and gas regulations to cover high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands, Indian lands, and private lands overlying federal minerals. More