Water Quality

The East River between Randall’s Island and Throgs Neck is a bit of old New York, and not in a good way: Waterfront property is largely a mix of industrial and derelict, with LaGuardia hurtling airplanes aloft at a remarkable rate, and the notorious Rikers Island prison thrown in for ambiance. It’s also the extraordinary ecological connection between the Hudson River Estuary and Long Island Sound; a place of spawning, forage and transit for life in the muck; and a conduit for pollutants emanating from New York City. The public […]

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We came down from Ossining this morning. Carol Knudson of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory collected the first sample for Season 9 of our water quality monitoring program at 10:36, off the mouth of the Saw Mill River in Yonkers. Our community science partners are beginning their work too. Water Quality Program Manager Dan Shapley and Water Quality Associate Jen Epstein are sampling Catskill Creek today with community partners using the new Kingston lab. More about our lab at the Hudson River Port in Kingston. More on our newest partners […]

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