For more than 50 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New England has recognized those who have made outstanding contributions to protect the region’s environment. The 2021 Environmental Merit…
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has announced $349,922 in contract awards for three projects to help communities improve climate resiliency, mitigate local flooding, and restore aquatic…
Fifteen high school and college students from communities across the Hudson Valley recently completed an innovative two-week research program together with education staff and scientists at the Norrie Point Environmental Center…
The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) published the results from a multi-year summer monitoring effort using dissolved oxygen (DO) to examine the effects of phosphorus loading in Connecticut streams. The study…
This article was originally published in the July 2021 issue (#89) of “LUSTLine,” NEIWPCC’s twice-annual news bulletin for the underground storage tank community. Preparing for a Radically Different Future of…
Lake Champlain has a problem, and a new podcast aims to help. Currently, water quality conditions of the Lake Champlain basin fail to meet Clean Water Act standards for phosphorus,…
Donning tan waders and face masks, volunteers and students from 13 schools ventured into the Hudson River and its tributaries this spring to collect and count tiny American eels. This…
Every three years, the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP), a NEIWPCC program partner, releases an updated “State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report.” The report assesses recent conditions of…
This article was originally published in Interstate Waters in March 2019. Public Participation Is Central to Curbing Aquatic Trash At regular intervals in the summer of 2017, small teams of…
In 2013, NEIWPCC commissioned a study funded by the Long Island Sound Study to assess the feasibility of low-cost nitrogen removal retrofits to wastewater treatment plants in the upper Long…