• Measuring Sea-Level Rise

    Monitoring Impact on Tidal Marshes Late last fall, 3 NEIWPCC researchers at the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve finished installing 6 surface elevation tables to measure changes in Piermont…

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  • All About Soil

    October 16 marked the last day of NEIWPCC’s most recent eight-session soil evaluator certification course, which trains engineers, designers, local Boards of Health members, and others to make decisions regarding…

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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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