Water Quality

Patrolling Esopus Creek today we saw young “Cricket” — Saugerties Lighthouse Keeper in training. Papa Patrick Landewe says Cricket just turned 1.

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For Immediate Release Contact: Dan Shapley, Water Quality Program Manager, 914-478-4501 Ext. 226 OSSINING, NY — Today, the Rensselaer County Sewer District, Albany County Sewer District, and the “Albany Pool Communities” of Albany, Troy, Cohoes, Watervliet, Rensselaer and Green Island held a press event to highlight several projects that are part of the 15-year, $136 million Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Improvement Plan to improve water quality in the Hudson River. Riverkeeper Water Quality Program Manager Dan Shapley said: “Riverkeeper is encouraged by the significant work that’s been accomplished in […]

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First 2015 Water Quality Report The first of six Hudson River Estuary water quality sampling patrols of the 2015 season is complete, and the results are posted at riverkeeper.org. Note that the results presented here and on the Web represent a snapshot in time, and are not indicative of water quality today. We encourage the public to explore the historical data as one way to make informed choices about where and when to enter the water. Hudson River Monitoring Results, May 2015 We observed excellent water quality at almost all […]

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Our friend, paddler and clean water advocate Margo Pellegrino, shares this report from her remarkable journey. Learn more at her blog, Paddle 4 Blue. I’ve paddled an outrigger canoe solo along the length of the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. I’ve done this for myself, my community and my two children because I still believe we can make a difference. Our ocean is in crisis, as are our watersheds, our rivers, and the very drinking water on which our lives depend. In an effort to show the connectivity between […]

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