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  • EPA Recognizes NEIWPCC Commissioners and Partners with Regional Environmental Awards

    EPA Recognizes NEIWPCC Commissioners and Partners with Regional Environmental Awards

    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 Awards, presented in a virtual ceremony on Sept. 14, included several NEIWPCC partners. Former NEIWPCC Commissioner Janet Coit was honored with the Ira Leighton “In…

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  • Three Projects Announced to Help Protect Hudson River Estuary

    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 habitats. Funding for these projects is provided by the New York State Environmental Protection Fund and is administered by NYSDEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program in…

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  • Youth Explore the Hudson through Environmental Research Program

    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 in Staatsburg, NY. Through The Institute Discovering Environmental Scientists (TIDES) program, students conducted environmental research projects along the banks of the Hudson River and in freshwater…

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  • USGS Monitoring Study Informs CT Phosphorus Reduction Strategy

    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 was funded by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) and facilitated by NEIWPCC. CT DEEP used the data to develop an…

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  • Electric Vehicles and the Future of Gas Stations

    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 Fueling Four trends will profoundly shape the future of the gas station industry and associated federal programs, which insure and regulate USTs in the U.S.:…

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  • New Podcast to Focus on Riparian Forest Restoration

    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, a nutrient pollutant primarily from nonpoint sources that stimulates excessive algae growth. One way to limit phosphorus inputs to improve water quality is by restoring…

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  • Students and Volunteers Celebrate Another Season of Eel Research

    Students and Volunteers Celebrate Another Season of Eel Research

    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 migratory fish hatches in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean and enters coastal estuaries, including the Hudson River, as see-through “glass eels” each spring.…

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  • 2021 Lake Champlain State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report Now Available

    2021 Lake Champlain State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report Now Available

    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 Lake Champlain through a series of ecosystem indicators and is used by resource managers and the public. “The “2021 State of the Lake and Ecosystem…

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  • Taking Out the Trash

    Taking Out the Trash

    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 students, volunteers, and event coordinators donned hip boots and waded into the Bronx River at Muskrat Cove. Some wore tee shirts, broad-brimmed hats, or sunglasses.…

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  • Assessing Nitrogen Removal Retrofits

    Assessing Nitrogen Removal Retrofits

    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 Island Sound (LIS) watershed. The study, completed by JJ Environmental, LLC in 2015, presented a suite of cost-efficient retrofit and process modification recommendations for 21…

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