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Today was our first patrol of Newtown Creek for our 2012 season.  Over the years, we’ve dealt with a number of businesses … Read More

… focusing on the waters around Manhattan Island and in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek. For six years, Riverkeeper’s Patrol Boat and its scientific partners have been … Read More

… and $2.4 billion over 18 years to reduce the flow of sewage into the Hudson River, East River, Newtown Creek, Gowanus Canal and other city waterways. The order reflects Riverkeeper’s goals of … Read More

… Levin and other community leaders. The “How Is the Water?” talk was sponsored by the Newtown Creek Alliance and the brewery. The Brooklyn activist network turned out in force, … Read More

… actively pushing for a cleanup of the Gowanus Canal for years, and was instrumental in getting the Newtown Creek, another highly polluted Brooklyn waterbody, listed for federal Superfund cleanup. … Read More

… actively pushing for a cleanup of the Gowanus Canal for years, and was instrumental in getting the Newtown Creek, another highly polluted Brooklyn waterbody, listed for federal Superfund cleanup. … Read More

… waterways Riverkeeper marked major victories in its efforts to clean up the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek in Brooklyn in 2011. On Newtown Creek, the EPA ordered a Superfund cleanup that … Read More

… Waxman (February 16, 2009)  Sadly, oil is seeping out of a bulkhead on the Queens side of the Newtown Creek. Famously, the Greenpoint Oil Spill (click here for a link to … Read More

… and Josh Verleun, Staff Attorney and Chief Investigator Some of the team after a patrol on Newtown Creek. Read More