
Remediating and preventing contamination
Cleaning up decades of pollution and preventing more requires scientific understanding, targeted legal action, and sustained advocacy
The challenge
- Focus areas
- Water qualityHabitat and wildlifeDrinking water
What we're doing
Gowanus Canal

Newtown Creek

Sample from Newtown Creek boom, 2023
$100M
After years of Riverkeeper advocacy, the EPA announced a $100 million agreement with National Grid to clean up the Gowanus Canal
$1.3M
Atlantic Richfield agreed to spend $1.3 million restoring and reopening Quarry Park in Hasting-on-Hudson thanks to a legal agreement Riverkeeper helped secure

Mike Dulong
Legal Program Director

Newtown Creek map from Vision Plan 2018, Riverkeeper, Newtown Creek Alliance, Perkins+Will
Spill response, mitigation, and prevention
PCB Cleanup in the Village of Hastings

Photo: Hastings on Hudson Historical Society