Posts Tagged ‘Turbidity’

Riverkeeper Applauds Increased Funding for Land Acquisition, Flood Protection, but Identifies Key Omissions in Department of Health’s Revised Filtration Avoidance Determination

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Calls on DOH to address turbid discharges to Lower Esopus Creek White Plains, NY, November 19, 2013 – In… Read More

Riverkeeper Calls on NYS Department of Health to Restore Measures to Protect the Lower Esopus That Were Improperly Deleted from a Key Approval at Request of New York City

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Ossining, NY – August 29, 2013 – Days after the New York State Department of Health released a draft “… Read More

Riverkeeper Submits Letter in Support of EPA’s Determination that the Lower Esopus Is Impaired

Riverkeeper Thanks Members for Their Broad Support White Plains, NY – October 11, 2012 – In its ongoing efforts with fellow stakeholders to protect and promote the restoration of the Lower Esopus … Read More

Lower Esopus Creek in Ulster County expected to be designated ‘impaired water body’ due to turbidity

E.P.A. Plans Crackdown on Muddy Upstate Waterway

EPA Takes Action on the Lower Esopus in Response to Riverkeeper’s Petition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Riverkeeper Urges Public Support White Plains, NY – September 13, 2012 – The U.S. Environmental Protecti… Read More

In public comments, Ulster County demands NYC funds for Lower Esopus landowners and towns

28 test piles driven at future Tappan Zee Bridge site

Riverkeeper and Ulster County Join Forces to Protect the Lower Esopus and its Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper 516.526.9371 [email protected] Petition DEC to take action against DEP’s unpermitted turbid releases into Lower Esopus Creek Ossi… Read More

DEP calls Lower Esopus tests “encouraging”

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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