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… we’ll focus on a number of new stretches of shoreline in desperate need of “Sweep” coverage. Newtown Creek clean water investment skyrockets. Riverkeeper and The Newtown Creek Alliance have … Read More

… the ferry wakes in New York Harbor, around the tip of Manhattan and into the severely polluted Newtown Creek, stopping at seven locations: “They dipped a fine-mesh plankton net into the … Read More

… “When people realize what good work is being done, it just snowballs.” Willis Elkins, Newtown Creek, Brooklyn “On the Riverkeeper Sweep, we continued ongoing cleanup and … Read More

… the charts below. The following sites are participating in the data collection effort this year: Newtown Creek with North Brooklyn Boat Club John V. Lindsay East River Park Hastings: Waterfront … Read More

… River, Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek, Fresh Creek, Gowanus Canal, Head of Bay, Hutchinson River, Newtown Creek, Paerdegat Basin, Sheepshead Bay, Shellbank Basin, Spring Creek, Thurston Basin and … Read More

… Riverkeeper partners also testified at the hearing – including the SWIM Coalition, NRDC, Newtown Creek Alliance, Waterfront Alliance, North Shore Waterfront Conservancy of Staten Island, … Read More

… before, and we will again. We’ve stood up against government inaction, and we will again. On Newtown Creek, for example, on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, we took on ExxonMobil, the … Read More

… it.” This is how the work starts – just as it did in 2002, when Riverkeeper first entered Newtown Creek and discovered a massive plume of crude oil seeping from the ground beneath … Read More

… it, “another Heart of Darkness” – evoking his feeling upon first patrolling Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal, which are now federally designated Superfund sites, with toxic … Read More