
Citizen Sampling Begins on the Quassaick Creek
August 7, 2014
- recreational access points;
- up or downstream of the Town and City of Newburgh's drinking water reservoirs;
- sites coinciding with biomonitoring sampling conducted by Orange County Water Authority, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Division of Water, or the DEC's Water Assessments by Volunteer Evaluators (WAVE) program;
- sites in areas with suspected problems, such as dry weather sewage discharges and combined sewer overflow (CSO) infrastructure; and,
- tributaries of the Quassaick, including Patton Brook, Gidneytown Creek and Bushfield Creek, plus two unnamed streams.




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