Thanks to your donations, time and activism, Riverkeeper can proudly claim another year of success tackling the biggest threats to our river and our drinking water, in partnership with thousands of amazing citizen activists.
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A sign of winter – the Coast Guard buoy tender is swapping the summer aids to navigation out for winter buoys which are less likely to be grabbed by ice. Here she’s southbound near West Point.
Final patrol of the Hudson in 2013 is underway. Keep it tuned here for photos and updates throughout Capt. John Lipscomb's cold-weather journey from Troy to Brooklyn to end the 2013 patrol season.
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Afrodite in the Port of Albany, Sept. 21, 2013. (The discharge visible is ballast water.) A crude oil barge is also visible starting south.
In the last 12 months, a new industry has started on the Hudson River, as shipments of crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota have arrived by rail in Albany for shipment down the Hudson.
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As part of our boat patrol, Riverkeeper rides into one of the worst-contaminated waterways in North America. The 1.8-mile Gowanus Canal, an industrial dumping ground for 150 years, is a greenish-gray channel through Brooklyn where the water bubbles with methane. Brown gobs of coal tar […]
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A bill amending key sections of the Hudson River Park Act has been sent to Governor Cuomo for signature after being rushed through the Assembly and Senate on a last minute vote, as the 2013 legislative session ended, with no opportunity for input from the public.
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On patrol today on the Newtown Creek and its tributaries in Brooklyn, we observed a discharge that appears to be fluorescent dye often used for water system testing. We reported the discharge to city and state environmental officials, and the state Department of Environmental Conservation has opened an investigation.
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Student members of Pace University’s Environmental Litigation Clinic pose for a photo aboard Riverkeeper’s patrol boat “R. Ian Fletcher” one recent afternoon.
Students with Pace University’s Environmental Litigation Clinic are helping Riverkeeper with several ongoing cases aimed at protecting the Hudson River, its tributaries and Hudson River ecology. Members of the team joined the crew of Riverkeeper’s patrol boat “R. Ian Fletcher” one recent afternoon for an […]
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The public spoke out strongly at NRC hearings on the longterm storage of nuclear waste at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear reactors.
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The Rondout Reservoir, one of the sources of drinking water for New York City. Riverkeeper tests the water in the Rondout Creek downstream of the reservoir.
Scenes from water quality sampling on the Rondout Creek on the last day Riverkeeper's citizen partners tested Hudson River tributary waters for the 2013 season.
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Watch this important Indian Point Webinar from October 21, introduced by Riverkeeper Paul Gallay and featuring Hudson River Program Director Phillip Musegaas. Phillip discusses the legal certifications that Indian Point needs to continuing operating, as well as the ongoing NRC relicensing process, nuclear waste storage, […]
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