In case you needed a reminder of how truly wild the Hudson is, here are several pictures of a young Black Bear crossing Rondout Creek. I’ve only seen this once before and that was down near “Bear” Mountain. “G’day boys, how are the fish […] More
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About a week ago we received a watchdog report from one of our volunteers who lives in Brooklyn. She reported that there was a cement slurry running into a storm drain from a cement facility near Newtown Creek in East Williamsburg. We forwarded her report […] More
Newtown Creek today during our May water quality patrol, which began this morning. Raining. We see several sites with very turbid discharges – we assume storm water. No sheens. No SPDES signs (pollution discharge permits). Also, at Pratt oil seep on Queens side the absorbent […] More
Meet Chris Brennan of Brennan Boatbuilding, pictured here with Captain John. Chris makes it possible to improve the patrol boat each and every year. This winter, one of Chris’ major tasks was replanking portions of the underside of the boat and he did a tremendous […] More
The State is conducting a “Pile Demonstration Implementation Project” (PIDP) in the Hudson and is also collecting many core samples of bottom sediment. The data collected will be provided to the contractors who are bidding on construction of the proposed two new bridge structures. Riverkeeper, […] More
Yesterday we patrolled Tappan Zee Bay with students from the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic! The Clinic works collaboratively with Riverkeeper in many legal proceedings at the local, state, and federal level. It was great to get them out on the water! Professors Karl Coplan and […] More
