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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
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
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
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…