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… Lipscomb sampled water quality in the East River and its tributaries with CUNY Queens College. Flushing Bay was a milky, murky blue-green color – and Flushing Creek was filled with … Read More

… collaborating on NYC’s Green Infrastructure Plan, helping to coalesce the Coney Island Creek and Flushing Waterway communities around clean water, and in educating untold numbers of New Yorkers … Read More

… overflows to the Bronx River and Hutchinson River in the Bronx; Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn; and Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek, and Alley Creek in Queens. The state-approved plans allow the city to … Read More

… At eight sites, volunteers conducted a detailed survey on the contents of shoreline trash. At the Flushing Bay cleanup, led by Guardians of Flushing Bay and Empire Dragon Boat Team, these were the … Read More

… of pieces of “tiny trash,” smaller than 2.5 centimeters. On a local level, the Guardians of Flushing Bay encountered foam pieces above all else, finding 477 pieces of foam (larger than 2.5 … Read More

… overflows to the Bronx River and Hutchinson River in the Bronx; Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn; and Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek and Alley Creek in Queens. “It is time to bring our water … Read More

… primarily in the New York / New Jersey region. Last year, data collectors at five Sweep sites – Flushing Bay, Hastings-on-Hudson, Cornwall, Esopus and Poughkeepsie – counted hundreds of plastic … Read More

… issued on March 7, but documentation was made available only yesterday. The affected waters are Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek and Alley Creek in Queens, and the Bronx and Hutchinson rivers in the … Read More

… treatment processes designed to kill pathogens, not remove pharmaceutical compounds; and that flushing of unused medications is still common. Find ways to safely and responsibly dispose of … Read More