Riverkeeper’s patrol boat is undergoing ongoing winter restoration and maintenance at our home port, Westerly Marina in Ossining. We are re-planking the bottom in sections, season by season. This weekend, boatbuilder Chris Brennan was steaming the port chine plank – the lowest plank on the […]
More
On January 28, 2015, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) finalized regulations that will allow permitting of new liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) storage facilities for the first time since 1973, when a catastrophic explosion at a LNG storage facility on Staten Island resulted in the deaths of 40 workers.
More
Local citizens in Ulster County came together to question Kingston’s plan to sell water to a for-profit water company, and as a result, Niagara Bottling has dropped the project. “A significant potential threat to our public water resources has been averted by this decision as […]
More
Photo: Dorice Madronero
State Public Service Commissioner Audrey Zibelman even came down from Albany to watch the new Rockland County Water Management Task Force present the outlines of their plan, which includes more conservation, fewer leaks and smarter use of existing resources.
More
(Photo: Joe DeMarchis)
In January we had a wonderful surprise visit from a River Otter at Westerly Marina in Ossining. Westerly is Riverkeeper’s home port and the Fletcher is ashore there now for annual upgrades and maintenance. Joe DeMarchis took these images through a shop window early on […]
More
Example of a NY-Alert notification for a sewage release.
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) took one important step forward this month with the creation of the state’s first realtime notification system for sewage discharges affecting recreational water quality. Discharges of untreated and partially treated sewage from publicly owned separate sewer systems and treatment […]
More
Stand-up Paddleboarding is an increasingly popular sport on the Hudson--one that isn't easy for everyone to learn. Photo: Dan Shapley / Riverkeeper
The state Department of Environmental Conservation this month has implemented a new notification system for the Sewage Pollution Right to Know Law, giving the public access through NY-ALERT to important near-realtime reports of many discharges of raw or partially treated sewage. Riverkeeper urges the public […]
More
We need you to raise your voice now to ensure we can make critical investments today in clean water infrastructure that will protect future generations. It has been 50 years since New York voters approved the $1 billion Pure Water Bond Act, at a time […]
More
From the perspective of an American shad, that iconic, depleted fish of the estuary, the Hudson River today is far different, and in many ways far less hospitable, than in times past. We’ve made tremendous progress improving water quality since the passage of New York’s […]
More
Won’t we miss these cups? No we won’t. Thank you, NYC, for banning plastic foam containers and relieving our waterways of that much more waste. And thank you, Dunkin’ Donuts, for finding alternatives. Read the latest: Dunkin’ Donuts removing styrofoam cups from all city locations […]
More
