Arthur Cemelli documents seepage at the Popp Memorial Park boat launch on the Wallkill River. (Photo by Dan Shapley / RIverkeeper)
Before the Wallkill River “Boat Brigade” had entered the water, its members had made the observations that will be its first report. What is that orange ooze, with rainbow sheen? It was seeping out of the ground in several rivulets at the boat launch at […]
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Jason West leads the first meeting of a new Wallkill River Watershed citizens group on June 4, 2015. (Photo by Dan Shapley/Riverkeeper)
It was a huge night for the Wallkill River June 4, as more than 40 people came together to form a new citizen watershed group that wants to achieve a “fishable and swimmable” river. The group that gathered included environmental scientists and ecologists, representatives of […]
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Community scientists have expanded Riverkeeper’s water quality sampling program far beyond our own sampling patrol along the Hudson, by working along New York City’s waterfront and in 211 miles of Hudson Valley streams. In this video, Laurie Seeman of Strawtown Art & Garden Studio explains […]
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Dan Shapley visits with Catskill Creek community partners aboard Riverkeeper’s patrol boat at Riverview Marine in Catskill yesterday after receiving samples from Catskill Creek, right to its headwaters, which we are processing aboard. More than 20 Catskill Creek samples are being processed in Riverkeeper’s onboard […]
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First 2015 Water Quality Report The first of six Hudson River Estuary water quality sampling patrols of the 2015 season is complete, and the results are posted at riverkeeper.org. Note that the results presented here and on the Web represent a snapshot in time, and […]
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Members of the public reporting an oil sheen in the wake of the Indian Point transformer fire and oil spill should call both of these authorities: Federal/EPA spill hotline: 1-800-424-8802 NYS spill hotline: 1-800-457-7362 Photos are critical, and can be submitted to both EPA and […]
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Our friend, paddler and clean water advocate Margo Pellegrino, shares this report from her remarkable journey. Learn more at her blog, Paddle 4 Blue. I’ve paddled an outrigger canoe solo along the length of the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. I’ve done this for […]
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Today I patrolled south from Waterford and Troy through the Port of Albany and was reminded of some photos sent to me in 2012 by my longtime great friend Susie Rogers (Bard Professor, kayaker, author of “My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir”). She was kayaking […]
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Carol grabs a sample at
Newburgh's public boat launch. A couple fishermen were looking on, curiously, and when I called in a missing pollution discharge public notification sign that was supposed to be placed at one of the city's combined sewer outfalls, I learned from the city that all the signs are being improved and replaced. One improvement: They'll face both the shore and the water. Newburgh has excellent leadership when it comes to water issues. Nice job, Newburgh.
By the time I boarded the Riverkeeper patrol boat in Garrison around 9 a.m. on May 13, Capt. John Lipscomb and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory research assistant Carol Knudson had already traveled from Ossining and gathered three water samples from Peekskill, Annsville Creek and Fort […]
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Passing Indian Point this morning at 0800 – no sheen or odor observed. We patrolled the same areas we visited and documented on Sunday morning after the transformer explosion and spill at the nuclear plant. There was a strong southwest wind yesterday veering to northwest […]
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