Dan Shapley
Senior Director of Advocacy, Policy and Planning
Take action today! Contact the Governor and your State Assemblymember and tell them to make good on the Governor’s pledge to put $2.5 billion toward the Clean Water Infrastructure Act. The budget deadline is April 1!
- 2,300 sewage discharges were likely to have reached water, and they affected at least 200 different water bodies.
- 207 treatment facilities or collection systems reported at least one discharge
- 6.25 billion gallons of sewage was reported discharged, and is recognized as an underestimate
- More than 2 billion gallons of sewage were released into the Hudson River, and no waterway in the state received more reported discharges.
- The Mohawk River, the Hudson's largest tributary, received over 500 million gallons.
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Water quality monitoring
Riverkeeper is the go-to source for information about the quality of the water along the Hudson River and its tributaries
Sewer and stormwater pollution
Working to keep sewage and street pollution out of our waterways
Emerging and unregulated contaminants
Toxic chemicals can harm the health of people, wildlife, aquatic ecosystems