Riverkeeper Friends, There’s a vision we all share. A Hudson that’s teeming with wildlife and that’s safe for swimming on these brutally hot days. A drinking water supply that’s valued and secure. Everyday we realize more and more of this vision, and it’s thanks to […]
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Twaalfskill sewage discharge, July 16.
Update on the City of Kingston's response to a sewage discharge into the Twaalfskill Brook that has been estimated at 500,000 gallons, and which has been flowing since at least July 8.
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River herring from the Hudson River (Photo courtesy Tom Lake)
Draft letter supporting reform of the Atlantic herring fishery, in order to protect Hudson River river herring, including American shad, blueback herring and alewives.
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Rob Farris viws the Twaalfskill from his yard, July 9, 2013. (Photo by Dan Shapley)
Riverkeeper continues to investigate a sewage discharge in the Twaalfskill, a tributary of the Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY.
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This is What Democracy Looks Like
If you support grass-roots democracy — and politicians who are willing to fight for it — please like and share this post. Riverkeeper is a proud partner of the folks pictured here – the Rockland Water Coalition. They’re fighting a proposed desalination plant that would […]
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237 years after the Declaration of Independence, the spirit of freedom is alive and well in New York’s environmental movement. It’s there, in the amazing statewide campaign to protect us from the ravages of fracking. And, in the fight against a senseless desalination project in […]
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Recently, there have been at least two reports of dead sturgeon found on the banks of the Hudson River in the vicinity of the Tappan Zee Bridge, where construction activities related to the planned replacement of the bridge are ongoing.
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Photo: Sara Moriarty
By Evan Preminger
On June 17th, more than two thousand five hundred New Yorkers gathered in Albany to make their voices heard. The New York Crossroads rally, co-sponsored by Riverkeeper and over 70 other environmental and citizen action organizations, drew large crowds to the East Capitol lawn in support of a two-year moratorium on high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and New York turning away from fossil fuels toward alternative energy solutions.
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On a hot summer day, there’s no refreshment like cooling off with a swim with the scenic backdrop of the majestic Hudson Valley. Unfortunately, nearly one-quarter of our water samples in the Hudson River since 2006 have failed federal guidelines for safe swimming.
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First observed on 6/5/13 While investigating a large unexplained discharge just north of the Wynants Kill in South Troy with DEC officers Lieutenant James hays and ECO Scott Daly we found a hidden large volume sewer overflow discharging into Wynants Kill approximately 100 yards from […]
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