As many as 65 people, plus dozens more online, attended a Wallkill River Watershed Alliance forum on Harmful Algal Blooms in the Wallkill River, focused on what we know and don’t know about cyanobacteria, its presence in the Wallkill River, and what we can do […]
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The NY Department of Environmental Conservation must deny a key approval necessary for construction of the next phase of the Algonquin Pipeline, the Atlantic Bridge project.
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The New York State Department of Health made clear commitments this week to the people who have been exposed to Newburgh’s contaminated drinking water. The Department of Health pledged to make free blood testing for PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds available to all who are […]
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Brian Nearing of the Albany Times Union follows up today on efforts by the New York State Comptroller to audit the Railroad Bridge Inspection Program. He learned this, among other things: DOT spokesman Gary Holmes said Tuesday that two major railroads running massive oil trains […]
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The view from our patrol boat, last night and this morning as we departed southbound from Waterford. The changing weather is on dramatic display over the Hudson. Sunset, on a blustery Sunday evening. Early this morning.
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. There’s controversy about a proposed sewer rate hike in Troy, where the cost of maintaining and upgrading sewers to prevent catastrophic failures and chronic overflows is rising, after decades of under-investment. The situation is common to communities around New York State with aging infrastructure, […]
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In response to environmental and public safety concerns about the AIM pipeline, Algonquin has asked that the gas be turned on next Friday.
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Riverkeeper spent a full day collecting samples along the Upper Hudson Thursday, in partnership with Jarrett Engineers. By day’s end we gathered more than 30 samples from 150 miles of the river upstream of the Troy dam. Water Quality Program Director Dan Shapley draws a […]
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Hudson River off Hyde Park. (Photo: John Lipscomb / Riverkeeper)
Looking south just before sunrise Monday morning, as we pass the existing, authorized anchorage for commercial vessels at Hyde Park. No vessels were anchored here. None were here the evening before, when we arrived from Ossining. If this existing authorized anchorage is underutilized, what is […]
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Help us help Newburgh. Riverkeeper is fighting to make sure the toxic PFOS contamination affecting the city’s water supply is cleaned up, the reservoir is protected from future contamination – and that all those exposed to toxic drinking water contamination are provided blood testing as […]
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