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While patrolling Newtown Creek, Riverkeeper found that Allocco – a soil and stone recycling facility – had been … Read More

… Transit Mix, a concrete company, was illegally discharging its liquid cement wastewater into Newtown Creek. The company was diverting wastewater from its site into a pipe which emptied into … Read More

… businesses and a residential section of Greenpoint. The contamination has also been leaching into Newtown Creek for decades. In a 1978 helicopter patrol, the US Coast Guard discovered a large plume … Read More

On March 20, Riverkeeper joined The Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Newtown Creek Alliance, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), … Read More

… discharging concrete waste illegally into the Dutch Kills, a tributary of the heavily-polluted Newtown Creek. The DEC’s action comes shortly after Riverkeeper and Gioia announced their … Read More

NYCON Concrete on Newtown Creek Look at the color of the water! Photo credit: Basil Seggos Read More

… pipe from a cement supplier just south of the Kosciusko Bridge on the Brooklyn side of the creek. Marjam Construction is throwing waste material out the far end of the storage containers … Read More

… We suspect that the plume has found a new route into the creek. At the east branch of Newtown Creek we found a discharge from a cement plant. We have had a successful prosecution of … Read More

Out on Newtown Creek with an editorial crew from New York Magazine. Church property on Harlem River. … Read More