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Plastic Trash Targeted
Long Island Sound Study Campaign “Protect our wildlife: break the single-use plastic habit.” That was the rallying cry for a plastic trash reduction campaign that engaged thousands of people in…
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Stream Crossings, Flooding, Get Grants, Design
Rushing water overtopping bridges and culverts threatens not only property and wildlife habitats, but also public safety. More than 1,900 publicly owned road stream crossings in the Hudson River estuary…
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Hydric Soils Guide Updated
Identifying wetland soils in New England just got a little easier with this published manual. It has been updated to include an additional New England-specific soil indicator. NE-A2 addresses dark…
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Nutrient Bioextraction Removes Nitrogen
Why not: use marine plants and animals, such as seaweed and shellfish, to remove nitrogen from Long Island Sound? NEIWPCC has hired its first bioextraction coordinator to explore the potential…
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50 Years of Training Excellence
This article was originally published in the April, 2018 issue of NEIWPCC’s former quarterly e-newsletter, iWR. Thirty-seven wastewater operators made history on March 11, 1968, by participating in NEIWPCC’s first…
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Northeast Regional Floristic Quality Assessment Tool Improves Regional Comparability of Ecological Communities
Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) measures a natural area’s ecological integrity based on the variety and abundance of native and non-native plants in an area. Recent research and analysis has led…
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NEIWPCC Publishes Hydric Soils Identification Manual
Field Indicators for Identifying Hydric Soils in New England, Version 4, written by the New England Hydric Soils Technical Committee, reflects conditions specific to New England. The manual, published by…
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Filling ‘Key Observational Gap’ on the Hudson
The National Water Level Observation Network gained data from the Hudson River last October. That’s when the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) added the Turkey Point Tide Station to…
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An Hour and a Quarter in 1947
Two pages of yellow and brittle paper contain the typed record of the Commission’s first meeting in 1947. All three members were present. From the minutes: At the invitation of…