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… discharging 25 gallons per minute of untreated sewage, for 12 hours and counting, to the Coxsackie Creek at the West Coxsackie pump station. Capital District reported several active CSOs, based on … Read More

… The film crew rode along with us along during patrols of New York City’s Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek as John described his work. “It’s become a real mission. It’s not a … Read More

Patrolled from Erie Basin to Newtown Creek and then Flushing Bay today. More about the patrol another time. On the way back to … Read More

… which Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday. (Photo: Pollution in English Kills, a tributary of Newtown Creek, 2003) Read More

… massive, decades-old ExxonMobil oil spill that oozes from underneath Greenpoint, Brooklyn, into Newtown Creek – and it’s paying off. Remediation of the spill – New York’s largest ever – … Read More

… every year, mixing with the sediment or washing out, while legacies of industry – Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, PCBs dumped by General Electric – remain a challenge, says Dennis Suszkowski, … Read More

… Engineer, Track and Structures, joined the R. Ian Fletcher on its patrol from Ossining to Newtown Creek to view the tracks from the River’s point of view. Alongside Riverkeeper’s Hudson … Read More

… May 12-15 passed Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for safe swimming. In New York City, Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal and the Harlem River were among the sites to fail, demonstrating … Read More

… in the Clean Water Act of 1972. A tour of the award-winning digester “eggs” at Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (pictured) captivated the attention of HSBC Water … Read More