Riverkeeper Blogs

We left Waterford westbound Saturday morning, Oct. 17, moving through the Erie Canal locks into the Mohawk. Young-of-the-year herring, starting their migration to the Atlantic, are stunned by the lock's plumbing, and getting picked off by gulls. More

Hundreds of railroad ties that were swept into the Hudson River during Hurricane Sandy are now being removed as part of a cleanup effort by CSX Transportation. More

Carol Knudson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory collects the last main stem water quality sample in Waterford, where the Mohawk River meets the Hudson above Troy. More

We're making our way north during the final water sampling run of the season. Here is "The Shadow" in New York Harbor – our patrol boat departing Erie Basin in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on Monday. More

In May, Riverkeeper responded to a citizen watchdog complaint about an apparent sewage leak in the Fonteynkill, a tributary of the Casperkill in Poughkeepsie. The students and faculty of Vassar College know the Fonteynkill, as it forms Vassar Lake west of the main campus. More

Last week Riverkeeper submitted Enterococcus data collected in partnership with community scientists to NYS DEC’s Division of Water, as part of the state’s biennial statewide waterbody assessment process. In most of the places we monitor, our data is the sole publicly available source of fecal […] More

The results of water quality sampling during Riverkeeper’s September Hudson River patrol are now available at the Water Quality section at riverkeeper.org. The water quality monitoring portion of this September’s patrol took place during wet weather. At least an inch of rain fell in the […] More

The Sewage Pollution Right to Know Law, and related disclosure efforts, have revealed to the public the state of wastewater infrastructure. Below are reports made public so far today for discharges to the Hudson River Watershed. The Department of Environmental Conservation estimated the need for […] More

Early this morning in Kingston the visibility was only a few hundred yards. Very beautiful. Sea Smoke is a surface fog caused when cold air meets relatively warmer water. It burned off after sunrise. More