State of the Saw Kill Forum

When:

May 10, 2018: 6:30PM to 9:00PM

Where:

Red Hook Town Hall, 7340 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY map

Maryelisa Blundell and Chris Hulbert sample the Saw Kill as part of a new Saw Kill Watershed Community project. (Photo by Dan Shapley / Riverkeeper)

Join the Saw Kill Watershed Community (SKWC) to learn more about the health of the Saw Kill and its watershed on Thursday, May 10, at the State of the Saw Kill Forum. Participants will learn more about the work the SKWC and local researchers have been conducting over the past two years. Presentations will include information about salt, nutrients, flooding, and bacteria in the watershed. The forum will also include a community discussion on water quality in the watershed and its impacts on drinking water.

Dan Shapley, Riverkeeper’s Water Quality Program Director, will present on the topic of “Protecting Drinking Water at its Source” and help to lead a discussion about next steps that people in the watershed can take to protect their water. The Saw Kill is the water source for Bard College, and there are public water supplies elsewhere in the watershed serving the Village and Town of Red Hook.

The Saw Kill watershed includes lands in the towns of Red Hook, Milan, and Rhinebeck and the villages of Red Hook and Tivoli.

For more information or questions about the forum or the Saw Kill Watershed Community, please contact [email protected].