Posts Tagged ‘water quality testing’

Water Quality update: 5 ways to take action for clean water, plus the latest data

Here are five important ways to take action to promote clean water today: 1. Ask Governor Cuomo to sign the streams bill! A two-year advocacy campaign reached a milestone recently when the New York L… Read More

Riverkeeper Report Tells of Variable Sewage Contamination Levels in Hudson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, [email protected], 914-478-4501 x239 Calls on New York State to Increase Enforcement and Update Recreational Water Quality Standards Ossining, NY … Read More

Heroic Endeavors: Testing the Waters – Riverkeeper Watches Over Hudson River Water Quality

In this slideshow produced by Dulce Fernandes, Riverkeeper Patrol Boat Captain John Lipscomb and Carol Knudson from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University discuss the threats to the H… Read More

Calls for Better Information After Hudson River Spills

DEP Must Improve Water Quality Warnings, Advocates Say

Ossining sewage spill update as of Saturday evening August 13

On Friday 8/12 Riverkeeper sampled from Irvington to Georges Island in response to the sewage spill entering the Hudson at Ossining due to a broken sewer main in Killbrook Creek. The Westchester Co De… Read More

NYC Sewage Treatment Plant Discharge UPDATE

Riverkeeper’s Water Quality Testing Results Riverkeeper and our science partners sampled the affected area from the Tappan Zee bridge to the Battery on 7/21 and 7/22. In the section of River wes… Read More

Pumps Now Working At Harlem Sewage Plant; Beaches Could Open Soon

Pop Quiz: How Safe is the Hudson

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