11.11.15
:: Docket
Photo via Flickr / U.S. Department of Agriculture
The beetle, an invasive species which is not native to these parts, has become quite a problem in New York and now threatens the New York City Watershed lands.
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11.10.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
With a 5,000% increase in oil train traffic, Waterkeepers across the U.S. identify significant areas of concern with 114 railway bridges along known and potential routes of explosive oil trains
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11.03.15
:: Boat Blog
This enormous tractor tire was mired for years in a shallow cove of the Hudson south of the Bear Mountain Bridge – anchored upright in the mud, highly visible at low tide. On Friday, Riverkeeper, Metro-North Railroad and Sea Tow Central Hudson teamed up on a successful operation to haul it out and ship it off for recycling. Commuters on Metro-North’s Hudson Line knew this tire, a blight on the Hudson Highlands landscape. To Dan Shapley, manager of Riverkeeper’s Water Quality Program, it was The Infuriating Tire. “It was just […]
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10.27.15
:: Boat Blog
The season’s last set of Hudson River Estuary water quality sampling results are now available at the Water Quality section.
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10.26.15
:: Boat Blog
On October 19, a watchdog observed this coming out of a stormwater pipe, and discharging into the Sing Sing Kill, a tributary of the Hudson River in Ossining
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10.25.15
:: Boat Blog
Eastbound Tuesday, Oct. 20, returning to the Hudson. Clearing Lock 17 at Little Falls – the Godzilla of Erie Canal Locks.
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10.21.15
:: Press Releases :: Take Action
Event to press delegates to UN Paris Climate talks to commit to "urgent carbon reductions."
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10.18.15
:: Boat Blog
We left Waterford westbound Saturday morning, Oct. 17, moving through the Erie Canal locks into the Mohawk. Young-of-the-year herring, starting their migration to the Atlantic, are stunned by the lock's plumbing, and getting picked off by gulls.
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10.16.15
:: Boat Blog
Hundreds of railroad ties that were swept into the Hudson River during Hurricane Sandy are now being removed as part of a cleanup effort by CSX Transportation.
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10.16.15
:: Boat Blog
Carol Knudson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory collects the last main stem water quality sample in Waterford, where the Mohawk River meets the Hudson above Troy.
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