Riverkeeper Blogs

Spotted during our last patrol along the East River and Flushing Bay: An Osprey beats the traffic in Queens. As our patrol boat captain John Lipscomb says: When we see wildlife like this in NYC, “it’s really a hopeful sign, and it’s a message from […] More

In June, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that it was soliciting comments and concerns from the public on a proposal to establish a large number of anchorage grounds for commercial vessels in the Hudson River – 30 berths in 10 locations from Yonkers to Kingston – at the request of industry. More

A broken pipe in the City of Amsterdam spilled 500,000 gallons of raw sewage into the North Chuctanunda Creek, according to published reports. The press reports about the spill prompted concern from river users as far away as Newburgh, some 140 miles away. More

I am stunned every time I look out over the Mohawk River in upstate New York, “married to amazement” as the poet Mary Oliver says. The Mohawk River is confluent with the Erie Canal in most places, and the best word for it is “rich”: […] More

Saturday, we sampled water quality with dozens of partners on the Wallkill River and Rondout Creek. These two combine to form the largest tributary in the tidal reach of the Hudson River, the gorgeous Rondout Estuary that meets the Hudson at Kingston. We had help […] More

Water quality sampling for July is underway, with the Riverkeeper patrol boat ready to complete its monthly sampling of the estuary Saturday, coinciding with the sampling of the Rondout, Wallkill and Roe Jan. The Saw Mill Sparkill, Pocantico, Catskill, Esopus and Saw Kill, as well […] More

Riverkeeper, Cornell University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation today gathered at the Rondout Creek waterfront in Kingston to discuss the findings of the first broad Hudson River survey of micrpollutants, like pharmaceuticals, personal care products and pesticides. Cornell University scientist Damian […] More

Check out this awesome video about the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance. Riverkeeper and other partners helped to form the Alliance, a new citizen-led group, in 2015. Its formation and work to date has been influenced by Riverkeeper’s ongoing community science water quality monitoring project in […] More

A sulphurous stench becomes overpowering as you move up Westchester Creek, one of the New York City waterways that Riverkeeper is now able to explore with a new shallow-draft boat. “Just hold your breath for the next 25 minutes,” our boat captain John Lipscomb says. […] More