Water Quality

Update Nov. 23: The City of Newburgh has completed emergency repairs and eliminated the dry weather discharge of raw sewage from 6-10 homes on Park Place to the Hudson River.

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Riverkeeper has joined the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) WaterSense Program.

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This enormous tractor tire was mired for years in a shallow cove of the Hudson south of the Bear Mountain Bridge – anchored upright in the mud, highly visible at low tide. On Friday, Riverkeeper, Metro-North Railroad and Sea Tow Central Hudson teamed up on a successful operation to haul it out and ship it off for recycling. Commuters on Metro-North’s Hudson Line knew this tire, a blight on the Hudson Highlands landscape. To Dan Shapley, manager of Riverkeeper’s Water Quality Program, it was The Infuriating Tire. “It was just […]

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The season’s last set of Hudson River Estuary water quality sampling results are now available at the Water Quality section.

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Eastbound Tuesday, Oct. 20, returning to the Hudson. Clearing Lock 17 at Little Falls – the Godzilla of Erie Canal Locks.

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We left Waterford westbound Saturday morning, Oct. 17, moving through the Erie Canal locks into the Mohawk. Young-of-the-year herring, starting their migration to the Atlantic, are stunned by the lock's plumbing, and getting picked off by gulls.

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Carol Knudson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory collects the last main stem water quality sample in Waterford, where the Mohawk River meets the Hudson above Troy.

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