Spring 2009 New York’s Leading Clean Water Advocate

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: “How’s the Water?” Riverkeeper Tests Water Quality Gas Drilling: The Latest Threat to the NYC Watershed Board of Directors DEAR FRIENDS, George Hornig Jed Alpert 2009 is a year of milestones. Chair Joe Boren This September marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Vice Chair Lorraine Bracco Hudson’s voyage up the majestic river that bears his name –

Peggy Cullen Hamilton Fish the river that has been a lifeline to generations, from Native Secretary Robert Gabrielson Americans, to the Dutch, to commercial fishermen and to Dr. Howard A. Rubin Anne Hearst McInerney Treasurer others whose livelihoods depend on a healthy Hudson. David Kowitz Alex Matthiessen Beginning next month and throughout the summer, Riverkeeper President John McEnroe will commemorate this quadricentennial anniversary with a Doni Belau Jeff Resnick Executive Committee touring exhibit, “A Hudson River Journey: 1609-2109,” which Michael Richter Binta Niambi Brown will appear in approximately 15 cities and towns. (Please see the back of this journal for a Dennis Rivera Executive Committee Renee Rockefeller partial schedule and come out and join us!) Ann Colley Executive Committee Ronald A. DeSilva, The quadricentennial is just one of the milestones Riverkeeper is celebrating this year. Emeritus Amanda Hearst For the first time in our 43-year history, Riverkeeper brought a seminal case against the Executive Committee Arthur Glowka, Emeritus power plant industry and the Bush EPA that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. John Abplanalp Henry Lewis Kingsley, Emeritus While the Supreme Court ultimately ruled against us on a narrow issue related to the William Abranowicz Richard R. Knabel, EPA’s use of cost benefit analysis, the Court nonetheless upheld the rest of the lower court John H. Adams Emeritus decision that sided with Riverkeeper on every aspect of the case, delivering a major victory to environmentalists who have long fought to stop the needless slaughter of fish at our Staff nation’s power plants. Per the Court’s order, the EPA must scrap the Bush regulations ALEX MATTHIESSEN STELLA LIROSI Hudson Riverkeeper & Operations Director governing cooling water intake structures and start again. We are confident that the President HEARTIE LOOK Obama-Jackson EPA will issue a new regulation that adheres to Congress’ original intent ROBERT F. K ENNEDY,JR. Volunteer Coordinator to “minimize adverse environmental impacts.” Chief Prosecuting Attorney CRAIG MICHAELS This spring, we will begin the second phase of a landmark water quality testing program DEBORAH BRANCATO Watershed Program Staff Attorney Director where we sample and analyze the entire estuary and make our results available to the public

TRACY BROWN PHILLIP MUSEGAAS on our website. And, in the latest effort to protect our drinking water, Riverkeeper was the Communications Director Hudson River Program first among a coalition of environmental groups to call for a ban on natural gas drilling in Director ALLISON CHAMBERLAIN the NYC Watershed. Membership Services Manager PAMELA PINTO Assistant to the President We also recently launched a tap water campaign to educate New Yorkers about the GWENDOLYN CHAMBERS Communications Producer MARY BETH POSTMAN superior quality of their drinking water and the serious economic and environmental Executive Assistant to consequences of consuming bottled water. Finally, General Electric’s PCB clean up is RAMONA CEARLEY Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Assistant to Hudson River scheduled to begin in May. While we will be relieved to see the clean up finally underway, Program JAY SIMPSON Staff Attorney we will have to remain ever vigilant to make sure GE finishes the job. TARA D’ANDREA Grants Manager VICTOR TAFUR Clearly, we have much to celebrate during this quadricentennial year. Not only have we Senior Attorney made great strides in improving water quality locally, but we have a new administration in KATARINA DUPLESSY Vice President & COO REBECCA TROUTMAN Washington that takes seriously the rule of law and recognizes the importance – to our Staff Attorney ROSE MARIE GRANDE health and economic prosperity – of protecting our environment. Administrative Assistant JOSH VERLEUN Investigator/Staff Attorney And yet, there is no getting around these tough economic times, which make things JOHN LIPSCOMB difficult for non-profits like Riverkeeper and give industry an excuse for not investing in Boat Captain BILL WEGNER Staff Scientist pollution abatement. That’s why we are counting on you for your continued support. If we let down our guard now, we will quickly lose ground on the many gains we’ve made since the Clean Water Act was passed nearly 40 years ago. But, if we redouble our efforts to strengthen our WWW.RIVERKEEPER.ORG environmental laws, while reinvesting in our infrastructure and greening the economy, then ©RIVERKEEPER 2009. READERS’ LETTERS & COMMENTS WELCOME. RIVERKEEPER IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK AND SERVICE MARK 2109 will be the year when our great grandchildren celebrate the work we did and the river OF RIVERKEEPER,INC.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. we left them. — Alex Matthiessen, Hudson Riverkeeper & President

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Riverkeeper is the official publication of Riverkeeper, Inc., an independent, member-supported environ- mental organization. Riverkeeper is a registered trademark and service mark of Riverkeeper, Inc. www.riverkeeper.org All rights reserved. Cover art © Kim Barron 3 ONOVER C AVE D REDIT C IPSCOMB L HOTO OHN P J Summer 2008 This photo of an Atlantic OURTESY OF C sturgeon “young of year” says

HOTOS it all. At the hand of fishermen P 5/17/08 they have been almost eliminated This is a microbial sample tray viewed under UV light after incubating from the Hudson for their flesh 24 hours. All the fluorescent wells are alive with Enterococcus and their eggs (caviar). And by bacteria, an indicator of untreated human waste. A strong result such the hand of man they may be as this one indicates a cell count GREATER than 24,000 entero cells restored. The spawning run per 100 milliliter sample. Federal guidelines recommend closure of today is estimated to include beaches at 104 cells per 100ml and above. So this is really bad water. fewer than 300 females. A few centuries ago their numbers were thought to be “countless.” We fished them down to the brink before the fishery was closed in 1996. Riverkeeper assists the DEC Fisheries team with their Atlantic sturgeon monitoring program. Time will tell whether we stopped the harvest in time. This little fish 5/17/08 will have to survive until she is patrol boat log In 2008, we were repeatedly harassed by the naval militia at Indian almost 20 before she returns to Point. On this particular day, we were conducting fish larvae trawls her natal river to spawn for the with partners from SUNY Stony Brook to measure the quantity of first time. She is hope for the larvae being sucked through Indian Point and cooked with the two future. Riverkeeper boat captain John Lipscomb reports billion gallons of river water they use daily. The U.S. Department of from the river Homeland Security crew is blocking our sample run, even though 6/30/08 they had to come OUT of the security zone to do so. See the guy Riverkeeper has been conduct- with the automatic rifle? Are we really that great a threat? I guess ing a water quality survey since so. We reported the incidents to the U.S. Coast Guard, which the fall of 2006. These photos interceded on our behalf. No more problems. show why. People are swim- ming everywhere in the Hudson and in NY Harbor. We believe that the public has a right to know if the water they swim in is safe. It SHOULD be safe 37 years after passage of the Clean Water Act. But that’s often not the case. We hope our data will encourage the public to become more engaged and demand water quality information from NY State and county health departments.

Kids swimming in the Hudson from a boat club in Westchester, and in the Harlem River at High Bridge. 4 10/21/08 Scientist Andy Juhl and assistant Carol Knudson from Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory processing samples. We “cook” the microbial samples for 24 hours at 41 degrees centigrade in our 7/08/08 onboard incubator. This equipment allows us to sample day after day Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic showing their LEGAL MUSCLE on patrol without having to return to the Lamont lab every evening. after an outing to the Tappan Zee Bridge. The Pace students, super- vised by Professors Karl Coplan (standing on the rail in a green shirt – 10/22/08 We sample at three locations professors should always stand higher than students), Dan Estrin Rondout Creek is heavily used during every patrol. Some days and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., take on a number of Riverkeeper cases each by fishermen, recreational the cleanest water we find is semester. This relationship is enormously important to Riverkeeper. boaters, kayakers and swimmers. at the sewage treatment plant They’ve handled many, many cases over the years – and they WIN! discharge. That means that raw untreated sewage is entering the creek at other locations. The local health department does not test in Rondout Creek and posts no warnings for the public. Meanwhile, the DEC renews permits to the City of Kingston for raw sewage over- Collecting a sample directly from flows and Kingston plans to the outfall of the Kingston sewage build a few thousand new treatment plant, which discharges housing units which will tap into into Rondout Creek in downtown the existing sewage treatment Kingston. system.

BUSTED These photos were taken at an industrial site north of Saugerties, where industrial by-products have been illegally discharged for years into a large secluded fresh water wetland, 8/7/08 which flows into the Hudson. Giant home in Hyde Park across from new giant under construction The pH of the effluent is 12.3, in West Park. which is close to the pH of Clorox! The wetland is com- There is intense development throughout the Hudson Valley. The pletely dead. This case started large, visible developments sometimes get the public’s attention with a tip from a local resident and spark debate, but single homes are popping up all over and are in 2005. We conducted multiple below everyone’s radar. They cause fragmentation of open space, boat and aerial patrols, which monitored by Riverkeeper. But scenic corridors and wildlife habitat. Preservation of undeveloped turned up TWO separate indus- you’ll be pleased to know that both open space and wildlife habitat is more critical than ever. The remain- trial pollution sources. Details polluters were BUSTED. Both ing unprotected parcels are under development pressure NOW. are omitted here because these discharges have been stopped cases are active and being and the wetland will be restored. To view more patrol boat photography visit: www.flickr.com/hudsonriverkeeper 5 “How’s the Water?” Riverkeeper Launches Water Quality Testing Program

n a dramatic break from cur- researchers have tested 876 was usually acceptable during Irent water testing practices, samples from 80 locations to periods of dry weather, after Riverkeeper has launched a pro- date and published the findings heavy rains and particularly gram to take samples the length online at www.riverkeeper.org. near shore we found counts of and breadth of the Hudson – at This expanded study has been the sewage-indicating bacteria deep-water sites, boat launches, funded by a generous grant Enterococcus that often far public piers, swimming beaches, from the Wallace Research surpassed federal and state mouths of tributaries, and off Foundation. standards for swimming. And wastewater treatment plants Ours is the first study to reg- at some locations, levels were –and then bring the results to ularly test Hudson River water still high even three or more you, the public. from south of New York Harbor days after a storm. Up until now, water testing to north of the dam at Troy, “Everyone assumes that the hasn’t happened very often; and it’s created a new model waters around NYC are going usually, samples were taken for analyzing the river: one to be the worst after a rain, from the middle of the river, that produces real-time snap- and sometimes it is very bad,” results were expressed in aver- shots of the many factors – Lipscomb observes. The city’s ages and general trends, and it temperature, sewage, bacteria, aging and broken sewage treat- was hard for the public to get salinity, algae, oxygen, and ment infrastructure can’t han- hold of the information. If you nitrogen – affecting the estu- dle heavy rains and subsequent wanted to know how safe the ary’s health. surges of stormwater. “But water was in a certain area on What have we found? The what is surprising is that there a certain day, you had no way river’s water quality varies are locations far from large of knowing. widely, depending on where, urban centers which are chron- “Old sampling programs when and how often we sam- ically contaminated, such as were okay when the water was ple. While mid-channel water Sparkill Creek, Rondout Creek horrific and no one was going in it,” says Riverkeeper boat captain John Lipscomb. “Now people are getting back into hudson river program and on the river, and they aren’t doing it in an ‘average’ day or a trend – they’re swim- ming and boating at specific The Hudson River program team serves as times and locations. Water investigator, scientist, quality testing and reporting lawyer, lobbyist and standards for the Hudson need public relations agent for the Hudson River to be updated to reflect its true and its tributaries use as a recreational resource. It’s a matter of public safety and common sense.” Riverkeeper’s Swimmable River Campaign began with a

study of the river’s water quality, ROWN B launched with our partner, RACY COM 7. Lamont-Doherty Earth Obser- :T

vatory of Columbia University REDIT C (LDEO) in 2006. Using its 36- HOTO foot patrol boat, Riverkeeper P COPYRIGHT ASHFORD

© and the team of LDEO Scientist Greg Mullan (left) and boat captain John Lipscomb collecting a water sample. 6 TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE UPDATE In 2004, former New York Governor George Pataki called on the state to make the Hudson swimmable by 2009. Now that 2009 is here,

the question is: how swimmable is the river? COM 7. and Catskill Creek.” There, 2009 is here, the question is: smaller local sewer systems are how swimmable is the river? COPYRIGHT ASHFORD

also inadequate and outdated; The only way to answer that © our testing shows sewage over- question is through a testing flows dumping unprocessed program like Riverkeeper’s. We’ll Cross That Bridge human waste throughout the Our partner researchers are estuary. developing a model of the (After We Build It!) Riverkeeper is making its complex system that is the By Robert Goldstein data available to the public Hudson River Estuary. As the Early last year, after Riverkeeper’s well-received comments within days of testing. “The dataset continues to grow, challenging the procedure instituted by the NewYork State state and local health depart- patterns could emerge, which Department ofTransportation (DOT) were filed, the process ments should be doing this could let the public receive seemed to grind to a halt. Our objections were more than merely work,” Lipscomb comments. warnings and get meaningful procedural, of course.They were geared toward preventing the “We hope that our sampling advice on water quality at DOT from dividing and diluting the enormous project into smaller, data, and the ability to look at specific times and locations. less threatening, and thus, possibly more palatable segments. water quality in greater detail, That, in turn, will lead to However, 2008 ended with news that the DOT had decided what will empower the public to more people getting out on the they were going to build (a replacement bridge or more precisely demand better testing, which Hudson and enjoying it with “bridges”), what the transit options would be (bus rapid transit will lead to better pollution greater peace of mind. and commuter rail), and how they would continue the procedure enforcement and sewage infra- While the Hudson is healthi- (with segmentation).They did not, however, identify who would structure repairs.” er than it has been in genera- pay for it. In 2004, former New York tions, that’s not the end of the Currently on the table is a proposal that will dwarf the earlier Governor George Pataki called story. In fact, with Riverkeeper’s iterations in cost as well as in folly.They have decided on replac- on the state to make the Hudson Swimmable River Campaign,a ing the bridge with two, or possibly three, parallel spans that swimmable by 2009. Now that new chapter is just beginning. I would be built to accommodate both means of transit.Though the transit, sadly, will not be guaranteed, the bridge will have the capacity for its installation sometime in the future.The funding for GENERAL ELECTRIC the bridge itself, now estimated to be around $6 billion, is some- how being handled distinctly from the money for the transit mode, PCB DREDGING UPDATE which would add billions more to the final price tag. General Electric (GE) is scheduled to begin the first phase of its If this approach to bridge building seems a bit disingenuous, EPA-ordered polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) cleanup this we can hearken back to the addition of a lower deck on the George spring. The dredging will remove PCB-contaminated sediments Washington Bridge, built for mass transit. from toxic hot spots in the upper Hudson River north of Albany, But back to the process.The first segment of environmental review will seemingly cover the bridge itself and the selection of which have been a continuing source of pollution throughout transit options, and the second segment will cover the details the Hudson Valley. about the transit infrastructure.The review process for the bridge Riverkeeper has fought long and hard to force GE to clean will be completed and construction of it will begin during the up its toxic mess and will continue to closely monitor every process to assess the transit system details. What if those details aspect of this Superfund remediation. reveal serious flaws in the proposal, with difficult or impossible to PCBs are dangerous to human health and the environment. avert, damaging impacts to the affected communities and the The Hudson River cannot clean itself of the PCBs; therefore, environment? What if there is no later funding for the mass transit active PCB removal by dredging is essential to safeguard the implementation?The DOT seems to be saying: “We’ll cross that health of the region’s residents and ecosystems. I bridge when we come to it.” I

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hudson river program ORiverkeeper legal team supported (and enabled) the climbed the steps of the public’s right to litigate envi- Supreme Court of the United ronmental issues, but the settle- States. For the first time in ment also allowed power Riverkeeper’s history, the companies to avoid their obli- nation’s highest court would gations, under the fledgling hear our case that Hudson Clean Water Act. River power plants must use As a result, although the the best technology available to Environmental Protection prevent their cooling intakes Agency (EPA) ordered Indian from killing massive numbers Point, Roseton and Bowline to of fish, larvae and eggs. It has reduce their impact on the Riverkeeper’s legal team: (l to r) Reed Super, Alex Matthiessen, and Richard Lazarus taken us 40 years to get this far. Hudson River fish by installing Many say that the 1960s closed-cycle cooling systems, a veteran of the Supreme Court despite the profound improve- battle to save Storm King the power plants have spent Bar, argued on behalf of ment in the Hudson’s water Mountain spawned the modern more than three decades using Riverkeeper before the High quality, the decline in most fish environmental movement. every tactic at their disposal to Court. And we had the help species is well documented. It erupted over Con Edison’s sidestep that obligation. and support of attorneys gener- And that destruction has signif- plan to decapitate Storm King Riverkeeper was lucky to al from several states, including icant consequences for all of us. Mountain and replace it with a have a top-rate team of attor- New York and Rhode Island. The real problem here is that reservoir to generate electricity. neys representing us in this Basically, the argument was the power plants have had a The issue coalesced the region’s case. Reed Super, a former over the meaning of specific free ride for decades. It’s cor- environmental groups around Riverkeeper senior attorney, language in the Clean Water porate welfare, and it’s time the potential damage to the argued our winning case in the Act. Congress mandated that they were weaned off it. Let striped bass fishery and the Second Circuit. Georgetown cooling water intake structures them install the best technolo- destruction of a beloved valley. law professor Richard Lazarus, shall “reflect the best technolo- gy, internalize their costs, and gy available for minimizing stop deceiving the public. adverse environmental As this Journal was going to UPDATE impact.” Riverkeeper main- press, the U.S. Supreme Court HUDSON FISHERIES DEFENSE CAMPAIGN tained that should include a ruled that the Clean Water Act limited consideration, but not provision that governs cooling Following the release of our Pisces Report in May 2008, Riverkeeper the complex requirements of water intake structures does has kept close track of state and federal fisheries regulations and cost-benefit analysis. The gov- not categorically forbid cost- management plans that impact Hudson River fish species. We have ernment and the power plant benefit analysis. At the same submitted legal comments urging the Atlantic States Marine owners strained logic to justify time, the court ruled that the Fisheries Commission (which administers coast-wide fisheries decades of delay; their argu- EPA has the authority to management plans) and the NY State Department of Environmental ment claimed the law places decide not to engage in such Conservation (DEC) to address the multiple causes of the decline of cost above clean water. analysis. It is now up to the signature fish species in the Hudson River and along the East Coast. Requiring power plants to Obama-Jackson Environmental These causes include offshore bycatch, invasive species, habitat loss, install technology like closed- Protection Agency (EPA) to overfishing, and industrial cooling water intakes. Riverkeeper com- cycle cooling moves us toward decide whether and how to mented on new, stricter regulations for the American shad fishery the goal of the Clean Water compare costs to benefits when and coast-wide management plans for shad and river herring, and it Act: protecting marine life— it issues a new regulation for has provided support to DEC fisheries who are currently working to not just a few plankton, but existing power plants. I restore species such as American shad and Atlantic sturgeon, using the billions of fish that are radio tagging to study spawning behavior and population. decimated annually. Today,

8 INDIAN POINT CAMPAIGN UPDATE The Battle is Joined Major Victory in Indian Point Permitting Battle BY PHILLIP MUSEGAAS fatigue, pipe corrosion and the ur campaign to prevent fuel pool leaks, the board By Phillip Musegaas OIndian Point’s relicensing rejected our challenges relating In a critical legal decision released on August 15, 2008, the continues to gather momen- to spent fuel pool risks and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) determined tum. The past year has been a impact of Indian Point’s cool- that Indian Point’s cooling water intake system causes adverse milestone in Riverkeeper’s ing system on Hudson River environmental impacts on Hudson River fish.The DEC will now efforts to halt the licensing fish populations. Meanwhile, move to require closed-cycle cooling, which would reduce water renewal of the aging, polluting the board admitted New York usage and fish kills by 95 percent or more. Hearings on the new facility, which continues to put State’s contentions on a wide draft permit for the plant, which will now mandate closed-cycle the public and the environment range of issues, including cooling, are tentatively scheduled for 2010. as a whole at grave risk. buried pipes and cables, reac- Late in 2007, we launched tor embrittlement, changes in In October 2008, Entergy filed a lawsuit challenging DEC’s our formal legal challenge to land use, and Entergy’s failure determination. Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson have filed a Indian Point’s license renewal. to fully consider energy conser- motion to have Entergy’s suit dismissed on the grounds that the We were joined by a historic vation and renewables as claims are premature, and that DEC established “adverse envi- coalition of state and local replacements for Indian Point. ronmental impact,” in large part, by relying on Entergy’s data. governments and environmen- In response, Entergy mount-

tal groups, including New ed repeated challenges – with IPSCOMB L York State, the Connecticut little success. In its first appeal, OHN attorney general’s office, Entergy noted that it had :J REDIT

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of Cortlandt and the Hudson proof that the leak problem HOTO P River Sloop Clearwater. was fully “remediated.” While Together, we raised a record Entergy finally did drain a fuel number of legal challenges, pool in November, this did spotlighting Entergy’s failure nothing to alleviate the toxic to properly address technical, strontium-90 and cesium-137 Up until now, the licensing safety and environmental con- that has been leaking into the board has only allowed forced Entergy and the NRC to cerns. Technical and environ- groundwater and the Hudson “informal” hearing procedures consider nearly every aspect of mental experts, including River since the 1990s. In fact, that restrict petitioners’ ability the plant’s operation before nuclear engineers and fisheries before emptying the last pool, to obtain information from making a decision on license biologists, supported our peti- Entergy was leaking approxi- nuclear plant operators. But renewal. While no one can tions opposing a veritable army mately 70 gallons of radioactive recognizing the complexity of predict the ultimate outcome, of Entergy’s private industry water per day. The licensing the issues, the board, for the we are in the process of pre- experts. board rejected Entergy’s first time, has given Riverkeeper senting our best arguments On July 31, 2008, following argument. and the other petitioners the against relicensing. And we nine months of deliberation, Entergy filed a second opportunity to ask for formal will continue to explore politi- the three-judge panel granted appeal, fervently insisting the hearing rights, such as cross cal and legislative solutions to Riverkeeper, Clearwater and leak issue was irrelevant, since examination and depositions, our concerns about Indian New York State a record 15 the IP1 pool was empty. River- which would help us to devel- Point’s safety, security and contentions and tentatively keeper vigorously opposed this. op a more extensive factual environmental problems. We’re scheduled a hearing for Spring On March 5, the Nuclear record in our case against confident that the public will 2010. Regulatory Commission (NRC) Indian Point. A pre-hearing continue to oppose Indian Yet, the licensing board’s commissioners rejected Entergy’s conference was held on January Point’s operation; and that, in decision was a mixed bag. appeal, thereby allowing 14, 2009 and the parties are the not too distant future, this Admitting Riverkeeper’s con- Riverkeeper’s leak challenge to now proceeding with discovery. threat to our health and safety tentions regarding metal continue to the hearing. Riverkeeper has successfully will be shut down for good. I For updates on Hudson River Program cases and campaigns visit www.riverkeeper.org 9 NEW CASES

Lehigh Northeast Cement Company (Cementon, NY) On September 10, 2008, the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) ordered a halt to the illegal discharge of landfill leachate into wetlands and the Hudson River from Lehigh Northeast Cement Company’s closed cement kiln dust landfill in Catskill NY. DEC fined the company $50,000 and ordered it to restore affected wetlands. DEC’s action follows Riverkeeper’s discovery of these discharges, a two year investigation, and our July 2008 filing of a Notice of Intent to Sue (NOIS) Lehigh for violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

NYCON Supply Corporation (Newtown Creek, Brooklyn, NY) On November 6, 2008, Riverkeeper and NYC Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) commended DEC for halting concrete manufacturer NYCON Supply Corporation’s illegal discharge of concrete waste into a tributary of Newtown Creek. DEC’s complaint stems from a Riverkeeper investigation. In September, Riverkeeper filed a NOIS NYCON for illegal discharges under the CWA and RCRA.

United Water Desalination Proposal (Rockland County, NY) On July 9, 2008, Riverkeeper submitted comments to New York State on the potential impacts of a proposed desalination plant that would withdraw water from the Hudson to provide drinking water to Rockland County. Riverkeeper called on the state to ensure the highest scrutiny of alternative supply sources, as well as conservation and mitigation measures. The DEC has now required the applicant to provide substantially more information on their proposal and to consider water conservation in the environmental review process.

UPDATED CASES

Esopus Creek (Catskill Mountains, NY) As a result of Riverkeeper’s federal Clean Water Act victory against the city of New York in the landmark case of Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited et al. v. city of New York (see “Saving Esopus Creek” on p. 15), New York City must now obtain a state Clean Water Act permit for its discharge of turbidity from the Shandaken Tunnel into Esopus Creek. During the state administrative permit process, Riverkeeper argued that the draft permit was illegal because it included numerous exemptions, which allowed for violations of state water quality standards. The state rejected Riverkeeper’s claims and issued the draft permit. Riverkeeper then sued the DEC and in August 2008, the NY State Supreme Court, Ulster County, granted Riverkeeper’s petition against the DEC, finding that the Shandaken Tunnel permit exemptions were illegal. The court ordered the current permit to be vacated. New York City’s appeal of this decision is pending.

ExxonMobil Oil Spill (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY) Riverkeeper’s citizen suit against ExxonMobil for Clean Water Act and Resource Recovery and Conservation Act violations stemming from the 17 million gallon oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, remains in the discovery phase of the case. Riverkeeper is represented in this case by the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic. New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil in 2007. The state’s case is now on a parallel track to Riverkeeper’s.

Hudson River PCB Superfund Case (Fort Edward, NY) In a big victory for Riverkeeper and the Community Advisory Group for the Hudson River Superfund Site, General Electric has agreed to reimburse the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain costs related to ensuring safe drinking water to communities at risk for PCB contamination, due to the upcoming dredging of the Hudson River.

Kent Manor (Putnam County, NY) In August 2007, Riverkeeper filed suit against the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and two developers, alleging that DEP failed to take a “hard look” at phosphorus loadings and other impacts during its review of the Kent Manor project, a proposed 113-acre development consisting of 273 townhouses in the Town of Kent. In March 2008, the New York Supreme Court, Putnam County, ruled in favor of DEP and the developer. In December 2008, Riverkeeper appealed this decision to the Appellate Division, Second Department. The law firm of Teitler & Teitler is representing Riverkeeper pro bono in this matter, which is pending.

Millen’s Scrapyard (Kingston, NY) After Riverkeeper’s two-year investigation of the highly polluted Millen’s Scrap Yard, DEC issued a detailed finding that the owner’s failure to meet the requirements of a 1998 Order on Consent now constitutes a violation of that order. The scrap yard has long been an environmental blight, contaminated with petroleum compounds, heavy metals, and PCBs.

Quality Concrete (Newtown Creek, Brooklyn, NY) Shortly after Riverkeeper filed a Notice of Intent to Sue the company under the Clean Water Act in 2003, the Brooklyn district attorney served a 42–count indictment against Quality Concrete and its vice president, Constantine Quadrozzi, for criminal negligence and violations of the New York State Environmental Conservation Law. After a disappointing decision by the NY State Supreme Court dismissing the indictment, the state Appellate Division Court reversed the lower court and reinstated the indict- ment. The court’s reinstatement of the charges represents another victory in Riverkeeper’s continued efforts to clean up Newtown Creek.

10 UPDATED CASES

St. Lawrence Cement (Cementon, NY) The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) entered into two settlement agree- ments with St. Lawrence Cement (SLC), fining the company more than $77,000 for violations of petroleum bulk storage regulations, state solid waste regulations, and its Clean Water Act State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit. The settlement orders a halt to all violations and details a schedule for SLC to come into compliance with the law. DEC also approved design plans to alter a permitted discharge outfall that had contributed to the turbid discharges into the Hudson, which informed Riverkeeper’s 2006 Notice of Intent to Sue. DEC’s actions go a long way towards addressing Riverkeeper’s concerns about the facility.

U.S. EPA Water Transfers Rule Challenge (USA) In June 2008, The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its rule on water transfers. The rule, which runs contrary to numerous judicial holdings (including the Second Circuit’s decision in the Catskill Mountains case), states that transfers of polluted water between distinct waterbodies do not require Clean Water Act permits. In response, Riverkeeper, along with the original plaintiffs in the Catskill Mountains case, sued EPA, claiming the new rule is contrary to the Clean Water Act and represents an abuse of discretion by the agency. Riverkeeper is again being represented by staff and students of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, who filed suit in both district and circuit courts. Nine states, including New York, and the Canadian province of Manitoba, also filed suits against EPA.

OTHER RIVERKEEPER ADVOCACY

Albany Pool Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) Abatement and Water Quality (Albany, NY) As a member of the Long Term Control Plan Advisory Committee, Riverkeeper continues to monitor and comment on the design and implementation of the plan to abate sewage overflows into the Hudson in the Albany area.

Belleayre Resort (Catskill Mountains, NY) Since 2000, Riverkeeper has participated in the environmental review of the proposed Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park. The initial project was to be located on 1,960 acres in the Towns of Shandaken and Middletown, NY, adjacent to the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center. In 2007, Riverkeeper joined with several other environmental groups and signed an Agreement In Principle with the developer and New York State. This agreement commits all signing parties to support a modified project that was designed to address the original project’s environmental impacts by creating a lower-impact, alternative development proposal. Among other things, this agreement ensures the protection of 1,200 acres that were originally part of the proposed development.

DEC Petroleum Bulk Storage Advisory Council Riverkeeper attorney Rebecca Troutman was appointed to the DEC’s advisory council, which is advising on the development of regulations to improve protection of New York soil and waters from petroleum contamination.

Hudson Heritage Park (Poughkeepsie, NY) Riverkeeper submitted written legal comments on concerns about the 156-acre proposed development and called for careful study of the potential impacts to the Hudson.

Marx Properties Riverfront Development (Rensselaer, NY) Riverkeeper submitted comments on a variety of concerns, including the potential impacts to the Hudson from the proposal’s unnatural engineered shoreline. The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) Scope responded to several of Riverkeeper’s remarks and proposed considerations for alternative construction.

New York City Clean Harbor Taskforce (New York City, NY) As a member of the NYC Clean Harbor Taskforce, Riverkeeper has joined with NY/NJ Baykeeper, the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, The NYC Dockmasters Unit, The National Park Service, the state DEC, US Coast Guard, NYC Parks Department, NYC Police Department, and other agencies to investigate and prosecute polluters and remove abandoned and derelict vessels from New York Harbor.

NYC Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) Abatement and Water Quality (New York City, NY) As a member of the Storm Water Infrastructure Matters (“S.W.I.M.”) coalition, Riverkeeper is addressing the ongoing pollution caused by New York City’s CSOs and promoting the use of green infrastructure to address the problem. S.W.I.M. is working to shape the city’s implementation of Local Law 5, legislation that requires the city to develop a plan utilizing “sustainable” and “green” techniques to manage excess stormwater, as set forth in the city’s Sustainable Stormwater Management Plan, as well as the water quality component of PlaNYC. The latter is Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for the city’s sustainable future concerning land, air, water, energy and transportation.

Struever Fidelco Cappelli (SFC) and Alexander Street Redevelopment (Yonkers, NY) Riverkeeper submitted written legal comments on the proposed SFC and Alexander Street redevelopment proposals. Riverkeeper’s comments focused on the lack of adequate sewage infrastructure, stormwater management, CSOs, and remediation of historic contamination. 11 ¥ HOTLINE CALLS BY JOSH VERLEUN Each month, we receive dozens of reports of possible environmental violations. Riverkeeper staff determines whether the matter should be dispatched to one of our watchdogs or attorneys for further investigation, referred to federal, state or local authorities, or become the subject of citizen investigation and enforcement action by Riverkeeper.The following are samples of reports received by our hotline.

I Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Riverkeeper received an anonymous I Yonkers, NY: A concerned resident of Yonkers e-mailed Riverkeeper report of an oil spill at Metro North’s Harmon railroad yard. The reporter to report that a company doing duct cleaning work at the Pier View stated that approximately 17,000 gallons of fuel spilled when the Restaurant in Yonkers was dumping garbage cans full of brown liquid system used to refuel locomotives failed. Riverkeeper reported this directly into a storm drain. Riverkeeper referred this report to the spill to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) spills Westchester County Police Department’s Director of Environmental hotline and the Westchester County Police Department’s Director of Security, who issued a misdemeanor ticket to the company for an Environmental Security, who launched a full investigation. This investiga- illegal discharge into the waters of New York State. tion led to the filing of criminal charges against Metro North Railroad I Company and a senior manager. Metro North later reached a plea Poughkeepsie, NY: A concerned citizen reported to Riverkeeper agreement with the Westchester County District Attorney’s office and that a yellow sediment containment boom had broken free from the paid a fine to settle all charges. Delaval brownfield remediation site in Poughkeepsie and was stuck on an ice flow in the Hudson River. Riverkeeper reported the situation to I Columbia County, NY: A concerned citizen reported the existence DEC, which is overseeing the site’s remediation, and to the Coast of a dump at the site of an old factory situated on a major tributary Guard, who could warn boaters of this hazard to navigation. DEC of the Hudson River. According to the report, the factory buildings had instructed the contractor working at the site to retrieve the boom. been demolished, leaving behind piles of debris, old oil tanks, and I garbage, some of which has been falling into the creek. Riverkeeper Kingston, NY: Riverkeeper received a report that toxic heavy metals has requested documents on the site’s history through the Freedom are seeping from an old industrial site into a wetland area and tributary of Information Law and continues to investigate the situation. of Rondout Creek. Riverkeeper is currently investigating and analyzing site contaminant test results obtained through a Freedom of Information To report a pollution violation contact us at Law request. [email protected] or call 914-478-4501 x247

12 Current Priorities

Section 316b of the Clean The Bigger Better Bottle Bill The Clean Water Protection Water Act (CWA) requires (BBBB) (A.6069/S.3272) and Flood Prevention Act power plants to use the best seeks to expand the current (A.7133/S.3835) addresses a technology available to protect bottle deposit law to include regulatory gap in New York’s fish and other aquatic life. The non-carbonated beverages. Freshwater Wetlands Law, U.S. Supreme Court ruled that If passed, the bill would help which currently only protects cost-benefit analysis is not reduce the piles of bottles in freshwater wetlands 12.4 acres categorically forbidden by the landfills and earn up to $100 or larger, or that DEC has desig- Clean Water Act (CWA) provi- million annually for the state. nated as being of “unusual, sion governing cooling water It also would direct revenue to local importance.” New York intake structures, but also that the Environmental Protection cannot afford to lose any more Environmental Protection Fund, which supports the wetlands, which are critical to Agency (EPA) has the authority protection and preservation of the health of its water supply to decide not to engage in such New York’s air, water and land. and natural environment. If analysis. The court, therefore, passed, the act would amend left it to the Obama-Jackson Environmental Access to current state law, assuring state EPA to decide whether and how Justice Act (A.1435/S.5182) protection of wetlands as small to compare costs to benefits would expand private citizens’ as one acre. The NYS Assembly when it issues a new regulation rights to sue over violations of has twice passed A.7133, most for existing power plants. the State Environmental recently in April 2008. The Riverkeeper will monitor EPA’s Quality Review Act (SEQRA). Senate version, S.3835, remains drafting of a new rule to ensure Currently, those rights are lim- in committee. policy updates that it adheres to the goals of ited, but the Environmental the Clean Water Act, that Access to Justice Act would The New York State America’s waterways are once allow individuals to be litigants Environmental Protection again fishable and swimmable. in such cases. The act over- Fund (EPF) provides funding whelmingly passed the New needed for state agencies, local CWRA – The Clean Water York State Assembly, and governments and nonprofits Restoration Act of 2007 Riverkeeper urges the New to carry out environmental (H.R.2421/S.1870) intends to York Senate to pass the bill. clean-up and restoration reaffirm the goals of The Clean programs. New York State Water Act, which the Bush Ban on Gas Drilling in NYC needs more than $1 billion administration narrowly inter- Watershed is critical, as oil annually for such efforts, Riverkeeper works to strengthen the laws and preted to mean “navigable and gas companies target the including the Hudson River regulations that impact waters” only, putting all other Marcellus Shale mineral Estuary Program (HREP), our water resources. waters, including precious reserve in the New York City which is working to clean wetlands, at risk. If passed, the Watershed for industrial gas and restore the Hudson, so act would amend the CWA by drilling. Such drilling would the public may use and enjoy replacing the term “navigable wreak havoc on the environ- it. Riverkeeper is pushing for waters” with “waters of the ment, contaminating surface increased EPF funding to United States,” assuring the and groundwater supplies, and ensure the survival of success- protection that Congress in- damaging the watershed. With ful environmental programs, tended when it passed the these hazards in mind, Gover- which protect the environment CWA in 1972. Congress has nor Paterson ordered the state and health of all New Yorkers. been holding hearings, and on Department of Environmental April 16, 2008, Hudson Conservation (DEC) to review

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MAP PROVIDED BY NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Ashokan Reservoir, where the of Trout Unlimited, Theodore petition was denied, effectively , 2002 water then travels through a Gordon Flyfishers, and other ending the federal litigation. ARROW D series of aqueducts before environmental groups filed a New York City must now ERT B reaching the taps of New York federal Clean Water Act citizen obtain a state Clean Water City faucets. Unfortunately, the suit against New York City. Act permit for its Shandaken

OURTESY OF creek’s important function in The central issue in the case Tunnel discharge. During the C the New York City water was whether or not New York state administrative permit HOTO P supply has also served as the City needed a Clean Water Act process, Riverkeeper argued death knell to the creek’s permit to operate the Shandaken that the draft permit was ille- rainbow trout fishery. Tunnel. Represented by gal because it included numer- Since the Schoharie Reservoir students and staff at the Pace ous exemptions which allowed is not hooked up to a water Environmental Litigation for violations of state water supply aqueduct, New York Clinic, Riverkeeper argued that quality standards. The state City needed a way to get its the unpermitted discharge of Department of Environmental water to the Ashokan Reservoir. mud and turbidity from the Conservation rejected River- In 1924, the city began operat- Shandaken Tunnel into Esopus keeper’s claims and issued the ing the Shandaken Tunnel, Creek violated the Clean Water draft permit. Riverkeeper then which transfers water from Act. The city claimed that no sued the DEC and, in August the Schoharie 18 miles under- permit was required since it 2008, the Supreme Court, Ulster ground before it ends up in was transferring already pollut- County, sided with Riverkeeper, Esopus Creek. From there, it ed water from the Schoharie finding that the permit illegally flows into the Ashokan and intotheEsopusaspartofits allowed for exemptions and down to New York City. While management of a municipal needed to be re-drafted to uphold this operation does not appear water supply system, and the state water quality standards. SAVING problematic on paper, the discharges did not represent Unfortunately, the turbidity muddy discharges from the an “addition” of a pollutant from the Shandaken Tunnel Shandaken Tunnel have all but under the Clean Water Act. still empties into the Esopus. ESOPUS decimated the Esopus rainbow The district court sided with Fishermen continue to avoid trout population, and turned a the city and dismissed the case. wading in the muddy waters once-pristine stream into a But the Second Circuit Court and the trout population con- CREEK muddy river that locals now of Appeals reversed the district tinues to suffer. Environmental Discharges from the Shandaken Tunnel call “Yoo-hoo Creek.” court’s decision, holding that groups have long advocated for muddy a pristine trout fishing stream The red clay dirt from the the transfer of polluted water the construction of a multi-level BY CRAIG MICHAELS Schoharie Reservoir often from one body of water to intake structure in the Schoharie sopus Creek is a world- muddied Esopus Creek, but another required a Clean Water Reservoir that would help Erenowned rainbow trout settled out in the Ashokan Act permit. After remanding to reduce the turbidity in the stream that runs through the Reservoir before entering the the lower court for a trial to water traveling through the heart of the Catskill Mountains water supply system. But in the determine penalties, the district Shandaken Tunnel into Esopus before emptying into the mid 1990s, torrential rains and court levied one of the highest Creek. Every other NYC Hudson River near Kingston, floods sent hillsides of silt and Clean Water Act penalties reservoir that is hooked up to NY. For more than a century, clay into the Schoharie, bury- against a municipality, fining a tunnel or aqueduct has a the surrounding hills and crys- ing the Shandaken Tunnel’s the city $5.7 million. multi-level intake structure, tal clear water of Esopus Creek intake pipe below mountains Despite the Second Circuit’s with the glaring exception of have provided the ideal back- of dirt and sediment. Since first ruling, the city appealed the Schoharie. While the city drop for generations of fly fish- then, a once-thriving recre- the $5.7 million judgment. claims the cost of a multi-level ermen. Since the 1920s, the ational fishery continues to Fortunately, the Second Circuit intake structure is too great, Esopus has also played a criti- be buried in mud. did not buy New York City’s reducing turbidity in the city’s cal role in the New York City When two years of talks “warmed up” arguments and drinking water and returning drinking water supply system, with state and city officials upheld its prior ruling. The city a once great rainbow trout funneling water from the failed in 2001, Riverkeeper, then petitioned the U.S. Supreme stream to its former glory are Schoharie Reservoir into the Catskill Mountains Chapter Court to hear the case, but the well worth the cost. I

For updates on Watershed Program cases and campaigns visit www.riverkeeper.org 15 watershed news PREPARING TO REPAIR: The Continuing Saga of the Delaware Aqueduct Leak

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BY JAY SIMPSON Pepacton, Neversink and the safety and welfare of city for more than a month. During ore than nine million Rondout Reservoirs to the residents and other communi- this time, DEP diverted water Mpeople living in New York Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, ties that rely on the Delaware from the city’s Croton system City, Westchester, Putnam, where it enters the city’s water Aqueduct System; and, not to consumers throughout New Orange and Ulster Counties supply distribution system. At establishing an emergency plan York City. enjoy clean, unfiltered drinking 84 miles, the aqueduct is the in the event of a sudden and After growing complaints water from the Croton, Catskill longest continuous tunnel in unexpected loss of water from from residents in towns like and Delaware Watersheds. The the world. Water flows through the aqueduct. Warwarsing, NY, where the 6,000-mile network of pipes, it via gravity on an estimated 2 The comptroller reported aqueduct leak is linked to the shafts and subterranean aque- percent grade, crossing the that the RWB tunnel’s contin- flooding of homes, DEP con- ducts carries approximately 1.2 Hudson River 350 feet below ued leak would cost $66,000 tacted the United States billion gallons of pristine water its bottom. to $77,000 daily, or $24 mil- Geological Survey to determine each day from 19 upstate reser- The aqueduct actually con- lion to $28 million annually, whether the leaking aqueduct voirs. It is a remarkable engi- sists of three distinct pressure values that are much higher in is causing this flooding and neering achievement and the tunnels through bedrock, built today’s depressed economy. contaminating local well water. single largest man-made finan- from 31 vertical shafts at depths DEP maintains the amount In the meantime, DEP has cial asset in New York State. from 300 to 1,550 feet below of water lost is normal. River- agreed to provide ultra-violet But, today the city’s reservoir the surface. The Rondout-West keeper disagrees. Although treatment for Wawarsing resi- infrastructure is in serious trou- Branch tunnel (RWB tunnel) is DEP has a very active and dent’s drinking water, as well ble, as is its ability to continue the aqueduct’s centerpiece and expensive water conservation as bottled water and sump pumps supplying New Yorkers with conveys water from Rondout program, it’s hypocritical, for it to drain their basements. water. Reservoir in Ulster County, wastes millions of gallons daily. While the city speculates that In July 2001, Riverkeeper NY, under the Hudson River, At long last, DEP has taken 2011 is the earliest it will be released Finger in the Dike, to the West Branch Reservoir steps to address the Delaware able to empty the tunnel, it is Head in the Sand: DEP’s in Putnam County, NY. Aqueduct leaks. Last year, DEP also exploring the idea of Crumbling Water Supply The RWB Tunnel has been began a five-year, $240 million building a bypass tunnel, which Infrastructure, a landmark leaking for decades. For more project to prepare to repair would likely take decades. report (available on our web- than 20 years, DEP has known these leaks. DEP shut down While Riverkeeper recognizes site), exposing institutional about the leaks. DEP’s own the Delaware Aqueduct for the complex engineering required problems within the New York investigations show that the approximately four weeks so to fix the city’s crumbling City Department of RWB tunnel has been leaking it could begin this preparatory infrastructure, we continue to Environmental Protection up to 35 million gallons of work before repairing the urge quick action, from (DEP) and highlighting its water daily. leaks. This work focuses on researching to repairing the aging water supply infrastruc- In 2007, the New York State replacing a valve at Shaft 6 so problems. ture, including leaks in the Comptroller’s Office released a DEP can drain the RWB In March 2009, Riverkeeper Delaware Aqueduct. scathing audit report of DEP’s Tunnel to the Hudson River, released Preparing to Repair: The Delaware Aqueduct pro- Delaware Aqueduct System and ensuring that the tunnel The Delaware Aqueduct Leak vides approximately 55 percent leak detection and repair pro- itself will not collapse once and New York City’s Efforts to of the more than one billion gram. The report blasted DEP drained. This complex job Repair It, available online at gallons of water New York City for not: monitoring the extent occurred at the bottom of the www. riverkeeper.org/resources uses daily. It delivers water or nature of the leaks; repair- 700 foot shaft, with six deep- _reports.php. I collected in the Cannonsville, ing the RWB tunnel; ensuring sea divers living underground 16 RIVERKEEPER CALLS ON NEW ANDELMAN YORKERS TO TAKE BACK THE TAP! H OROTHY By Andrea Kott D he drinking water from the NYC Watershed supplies nine Tmillion residents of New York City and five upstate counties HOTO COURTESY with some of the highest-quality drinking water in the world. To P spread the word, Riverkeeper, the leading protector of this pris- tine water supply, has teamed up with Food & Water Watch for Take Back the Tap New York—a campaign aimed at getting New Yorker’s to kick the bottled water habit and drink the water from their tap instead. In addition to educating citizens about their tap water, Ta ke Back the Tap New York is calling on state and local government, restaurants and large institutions to drastically reduce their Riverkeeper attorney Jay Simpson and Executive Director of Food and Water consumption of bottled water and increase the availability of Watch Wenonah Hauter, fill up at Water Fest. tap water. The campaign is also teaching New Yorkers about the social, with toxic clouds of chlorine gas and heavy metal laden ash. economic, and environmental problems associated with bottled Consumers of bottled water pay a hefty price—$0.89 to $8.26 water. New Yorkers consumer over one billion bottles of water a per gallon for bottled water instead of $0.002 per gallon for water year—that’s more than 125 bottles for every man, woman, and from the tap—or $1,400 a year for the recommended eight glasses child in the state. a day, versus a mere 49 cents. Although it’s marketed as being purer than tap water, up to Take Back the Tap New York wants New Yorkers to know they 40 percent of bottled water (including the popular brands Dasani have some of the best tasting and safest water in the world, and Aquafina) are tap water. In fact, bottled water escapes the thanks to decades of Riverkeeper’s success in safeguarding the strict and frequent testing that municipal water undergoes. The New York City Watershed. Food and Drug Administration doesn't test bottled water for the Now we are asking one million citizens and 100 restaurants chemical Diethyl phthalate (DEP), a potential carcinogen used in the to pledge to stop using bottled water. Early signatories to the production of water bottles, which can leach into bottled water. restaurant pledge include Gemma, Il Buco, Bobo, Pure Food & Producing, transporting and storing bottled water wastes Wine, Gust Organics, Broadway East, Del Posto, Angelica Kitchen, energy, pollutes the environment, and escalates global warming. Jimmy’s No. 43, the Diner, and Marlow and Sons. These environ- Disposal of all these water bottles also degrades the environ- mentally responsible restaurants are featured as “water con- ment, since less than 15 percent are recycled. The rest pile up in scious” in the Eat Well Guide, a free online directory found at landfills, clog waterways, and when incinerated, poison the air http://www.eatwellguide.org Please join this campaign today! Sign the Tap Water Pledge online at www.riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/watershed_tapwater

17 COVER STORY BY DANIEL WOLFF

THE STATE OF THE

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By the year 1 A.D., the Lenape were families feasted on fresh-water clams and making pottery with elaborate designs. oysters “the size of dinner plates.” Along During each spring’s massive run of shad, with preserved fish and deer meat, the sturgeon, and striped bass, men would maize helped the Lenape survive the harsh bring their catch to the shore, and women winter. They’d travel inland then, behind PAST would dry the surplus on heated stones, the mountains, where the wind didn’t bite More than 10,000 years ago, when then store the fish in clay pots: provisions quite as hard. In 60-foot longhouses, a much of the earth’s water was locked against the coming winter. dozen families might live together in the up in glaciers, the coast of what we In the river’s floodplains, where spring smoky, half-dark. now call New York extended miles melt-off deposited rich black soil, the It wasn’t an easy life: infant mortality Lenape had learned to clear the young was high, and most Lenape didn’t live farther out to sea, and on its frozen saplings and plant fields of maize. The more than 35 or 40 years. An estimated shores, humans hunted walrus. crop ripened during the hot valley summers, 6,000 to 12,000 inhabited the valley. They dressed in furs and carried spears while children swam in the shallows, and There was no formal government, but the and sharpened rocks. On a boulder in what we now call the Bronx, they chipped the outline of a turtle; on another, in what we now call Westchester, the outline of a bear. They lived in a wilderness – absolute attention to nature necessary if they were going to survive. In the thousands of years since, as melt- ing glaciers cut the river’s present channel, people continued to live by its shores – and continued to depend on its abundance. Bands of Lenape, speaking a dialect of the Eastern Algonquian Delaware language, spent spring to fall along the estuary. They harpooned whale and porpoise in New York’s deep water harbor. They wove nets out of tree fiber and strung them in the river’s bays. They felled tulip trees with controlled fires, hollowed them with sharpened rocks, and paddled them – 20 men and women Munsee Nation Map (above and on cover) courtesy of The Saloman Collection, Claire Tholl, illustrator, The per long canoe – from shore to shore. Historical Society of Rockland County 18 small communities of 300 or so respected spirit world. One of their gods, Mësingw, OBOLIK each other’s fishing and hunting grounds was their Keeper of the Game. With his S OM

and traded amongst themselves and with face half black, half red, he balanced the T outside tribes. human being’s need for food with the fish OURTESY Lenape religion declared that all forms of and animal’s need to survive. C

life – animal, plant, and human – had spir- In 1609, when the Lenape spotted the HOTO P its. The natives of the valley didn’t hunt or sails of The Half Moon, thousands of years fish for sport. Their homes made of wood in the region had taught them how to live and bark eventually dissolved back into the in harmony with the river: dependent on forest floor. During an annual, 12-day fes- its natural cycles, thankful for its bounty. tival, they danced, sang, played flutes made Now, the new stewards had arrived, and of heron bones, and offered the first fruits all that was about to change. of the hunt and harvest as a tribute to this Lenape mask courtesy of Lenape Lifeways

trial pollution has turned places like the river has gotten cleaner, it has attracted PRESENT Newtown Creek into fetid symbols of our developers from Tarrytown to Haverstraw, mistreated waterways. Croton and beyond. Riverkeeper is work- Four hundred years ago, Henry Still, pods of porpoise, flocks of mer- ing to make sure that walls of high-priced Hudson sailed into a deep estuary ganser, and the occasional harbor seal find condominiums don’t block riverfront studded with rocky islands, fringed their way to the estuary — just as increas- access and contribute to more run-off and by marshland, and crisscrossed by ing numbers of New Yorkers find their pollution. Scientists are using the way down to the waterfront. With the sup- Riverkeeper patrol boat to test water qual- Native Americans in dugout canoes. port of citizens like these, Riverkeeper is ity and monitor fish populations. That Hudson dropped anchor in “Ozie fighting a number of battles to restore the pulse of migrating shad – America’s ground,” as one shipmate wrote, “and saw harbor. Legal action against ExxonMobil “founding fish” – dropped by 90 percent many Salmons, and Mullets, and Rayes will hopefully force a clean up of the com- in the previous decade. And many other very great.” The lands, the shipmate con- pany’s massive, decades-old oil spill in river species are also in decline. tinued, were “pleasant with Grasse and Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The “Sustainable Just before the entrance to the Hudson Flowers, and goodly Trees… and very Raindrops” report is sparking cost-effec- Highlands, the aging Indian Point power sweet smells come from them.” tive, green alternatives to help solve the plant sits on the east bank, leaking radio- If we call this a discovery, what Hudson problem of sewage overflows. And while active waste and drawing into its cooling discovered was a functioning ecosystem, the patrol boat’s regular presence helps system some 2.5 billion gallons of river complete with the river’s first keepers. And deter would-be polluters, increased water- water a day; that’s more than twice the the report back to his European sponsors front access lets boaters once again feel the daily amount consumed by all of New York was, in essence, a State of the River, 1609. pull of the harbor. City. Each year, Indian Point kills an esti- Entering New York Harbor in 2009, Just north of the George Washington mated 1.2 billion adult fish, larvae and overwhelmed by skyscrapers, bridges and Bridge, the great stone cliffs of the eggs. On the opposite bank, the removal of the constant buzz of activity, a visitor still Palisades stand as a prime example of suc- the coal-burning Lovett station gives hope feels the deep roll of the living waters. cessful preservation. The opposite shore is (continued on page 20) Here, 300 miles of river bump up against marked by a mix of abandoned power sta- EISS

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came an immense strain on the river. A and Haverstraw Bay. Today, cormorant ©C moderate rain can overwhelm the city’s dive off Piermont Pier, and shad pulse antiquated infrastructure, and plumes of upriver in the spring. The shallow, fertile untreated sewage pour out: an estimated bays have made a comeback and water 27 billion gallons each year. Decades of quality has improved since the passage of dredging and filling have all but destroyed the Clean Water Act in 1972. the natural habitat along the city’s 650 But the aging curve of the Tappan Zee miles of navigable waterfront. And indus- Bridge testifies to a new, ironic threat: as 19 PRESENT (continued from page 19) Hudson as a primary source of drinking forests and campers leave no trace. that soon all out-of-date, destructive power water. Riverkeeper checks discharges from Albany is the lower river’s terminal in plants will be replaced with sustainable businesses, as well as overflows from more than one sense. This is where the alternatives. sewage systems that date back to the early Half Moon ran aground and turned back. The winding, mountainous section of the 20th century. Regular monitoring of water Now, thanks to a network of canals, high- river called the Highlands has inspired visi- quality sets a baseline not only for humans ways, and railroads, the river has become tors for hundreds of years. This is a birth- who use the river, but for the Atlantic what Hudson was searching for: part of a place of not only the Hudson Valley School sturgeon – a species that spawns in these trade route between world markets. The of romantic painting but the modern envi- waters and, after 40 million years of river at Albany is still tidal, still only three ronmental movement. At its north end, existence, faces extinction. feet above sea level, but from here north after the river has cut its way through the North of Athens and the town of it’s blocked by locks and dams. That cuts ancient mountain range, Storm King pres- Hudson, the river narrows and divides. off the run of herring and other fish, ents its harsh, relatively untouched face. Small islands interrupt the current. The depleting the upper river’s ecosystem. The fight to prevent Con Edison from train tracks run further inland here, and Disturbing drops in the estuary’s oxygen blasting this mountainside and putting in whole stretches of the shoreline are still level are partly caused by invasive species: a mammoth power plant gave birth to the fringed by marshland: green sponges of water chestnut forming dense mats and Hudson River Fishermen’s Association, cattail and wild rice, nurseries for small- Zebra mussels fouling intake pipes. Riverkeeper’s predecessor. Today, Each year, 500 pounds of PCB’s though the occasional McMansion spill over the federal dam at Troy, defaces the shoreline, snapping pushing levels in fish above the turtles crawl up from Constitution threshold for safe sale and consump- Marsh to lay eggs, and great tion. Until GE finishes its long- schools of striped bass gather in delayed cleanup, commercial the shadows of the mountains. fisheries will remain closed. And For generations, the landscapes subsistence fishermen – who, like of the mid-Hudson region seemed the Lenape, supplement their diets to be the private property of the with catfish and perch — will con- mansions that overlooked the tinue the unwitting poisoning of river: Clermont, Springwood, their families. Olana. But the mid-Hudson shore- A former trading post, the estu- line is also marked by working ary’s terminus, Albany is best towns like Newburgh and Beacon, known today as the state capitol. Poughkeepsie and Kingston. These Riverkeeper comes here often to prospered thanks to waterfront remind our representatives that cur- commerce, their broad main PHOTO CREDIT JOHN LIPSCOMB rent environmental laws need to be streets open to the river. mouth bass and rainbow smelt. In these enforced and new laws enacted. One we Now, they face the challenge of switch- backwaters, the Hudson can almost look spearheaded, the 1997 Watershed ing from an industrial and manufacturing like a bayou – and then a huge ocean-going Agreement, protects 2,000 square miles of base that almost destroyed the river to one tanker powers past. Maintaining this deep- land and stream that provide New York that will help revitalize their economies water channel threatens the unique land- City with its drinking water. Today, the without adding to yesterday’s problems. scape: dredge “spoil” has been dumped creative thinking that spurred that agree- Kingston, for example, is the proposed site between islands and piled up on the shore. ment is needed again: to address sprawl, of a 1,600-unit development, the largest Still, there’s an untouched quality to governmental neglect, and polluters who north of New York City. Meanwhile, small- much of this area that makes it a prime impinge on every citizen’s right to clean, er and more sensible growth is already hap- candidate for an extended park and pre- safe water. pening. Factories are turning into museums; serve. The bald eagle has come back in the As the river is constantly changing, so warehouses have been converted into last decade and nests here. So do the are the forces that threaten it. The state of research facilities for alternative energy; cerulean warbler and the blue heron. Otters the Hudson in 2009 is plain: a great loading docks are home to river-view run along the mud banks. Muskrats drop resource is struggling to recover from 400 restaurants; and fishing, sailing, and scenic into the still water, leaving a few bubbles years of brutal damage. In its dark water cruises have become primary attractions. behind. Now and then a kayaker paddles and along its undeveloped shore, there’s The wedge of salt water pushed up the where Native Americans once steered their still a wildness that we’re only beginning to channel from the Atlantic ends just below canoes. Riverkeeper, meanwhile, makes sure understand. In that sense, the river is as this region. Above that line, towns use the that squatters don’t chainsaw protected open to discovery as it ever was. 20 habitat. The harbor’s once great oyster beds will flourish in a clean harbor. FUTURE With new generations who understand our need for a healthy river, the Hudson Given the millions of years that the will continue its astonishing recovery. Hudson Valley has been forming and Restored tributaries will feed fresh water the thousands of years since the river into the system each spring. Shorelines will cut through it, the next hundred include more set-aside, preserved land. Under an agreement establishing sensible amounts to no more than a ripple. limits on off-shore fishing, shad, herring, CHEARER S With a lot of hard work and a little and blue crab will have returned in large

ANIEL luck, the river will be healthier in numbers: the river will be approaching the D 2109 than it is today. productivity it had before Hudson’s discov- The average temperature of the Hudson ery. A carefully managed commercial fish- has been increasing over the last seven ery will not only boost river economies and HOTO COURTESY OF

P decades. That could have a catastrophic provide fresh, healthy, local food but pre- effect on the ecosystem. If we still have serve traditional skills. A kid growing up in large, centralized power plants 100 years the valley will once again know how to from now, they won’t be fossil-fuel burning fish for shad and set crab traps. or nuclear-powered. With river water no More people will be using the river with longer used as coolant, young-of-the-year less impact. Small boats will be a regular herring, shad, and eel will swim past sight in New York Harbor. Swimming tomorrow’s renewable power sources beaches will dot the Hudson shoreline from unmolested. Staten Island to north of Hudson Falls. Solar and geo-thermal energy will supply Eco-cruises through the Highlands and into some of the valley’s needs. More impor- the mid-Hudson will be a growing source ROWN B tantly, retrofits and highly efficient new of local income. With General Electric’s

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P growth will return us to the towns and stimulating the economies of towns and cities we already have: remaking them as cities all along the river. more self-sufficient, sustainable communi- From above Albany down through the ties. Strip malls and over-developed office islands and marshes that reach to Tivoli Bay, parks will be a thing of the past. All along the river will look almost as it did before the river, sewage and water systems will 1609. Osprey will nest in protected marsh- have been updated. And, the transporta- lands. Campers will be able to help scientists tion infrastructure will serve a stabilized with annual fish counts: their seines gleam- population that does more work locally. ing with shrimp, hog chokers, shiners, and When we do travel, it will be in vehicles pipe fish. From inland acres protected to that use non-polluting, renewable fuels. guarantee clean drinking water, deer and In New York City, the skyline will have bear and the reintroduced cougar will make turned green. Rooftop gardens will absorb their way to the shores of the river. Otters snow and rain. Instead of flushing out will be plentiful, and 12-foot long sturgeon overburdened storm and sewer systems, will break the surface of the water. the water will feed vegetables and flowers, It may be optimistic to think that four keeping buildings cooler and electricity centuries of damage can be healed in a bills lower. And the shoreline will have quarter of that time. But one of the lessons softened, too. Waterways abandoned to learned since Riverkeeper was founded is COM 7. polluters – Newtown Creek, the Gowanus the estuary’s startling ability to rejuvenate Canal, the marshes across the way the marsh- itself. Our job as stewards is and will be to ASHFORD : es along the Jersey side of the Hudson – protect it, to give it a chance to come back, will once again be viable, hosting industry to recognize that our future is inextricably OPYRIGHT

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS RIBEIRO REFLECTED LIGHT IV On a clear January night, IAC building on the West Side Richard Gere, Gloria Rueben, art lovers and Riverkeeper Highway. Richard Belzer and Lauren aficionados gathered for As they browsed the silent Hutton onstage to get bidding Reflected Light IV, an auction auction, which offered works started at the live auction. of art and unique experiences. by Jacques Lowe, Giles Ashford, The evening raised more More than 450 guests and vol- Tod Wizon and Alexander Calder, than $200,000 for Riverkeeper’s and right: Alex Matthiessen, eborah Harry unteers attended the bi-annual among others, guests sipped vital work and closed with an From left to event, chaired by board member wine, and nibbled on hors intimate performance by pop Kick Kennedy,. Kennedy D Jr. Robert F and renowned photographer d’oeuvres and delectables from icon Deborah Harry, who William Abranowicz and a fresh oyster bar. Anticipation thrilled guests with an acoustic Andrea Raisfeld, held at mounted as auctioneer Sebastian set of her favorite Blondie hits.

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Join our Riverkeeper Facebook Group at www.facebook.com 23 With Gratitude and Appreciation Riverkeeper would like to thank all of our supporters, too numerous to list here. Without your generous support we would not be able to continue to carry out our important work on behalf of the Hudson River, the NYC Watershed and the communities that depend on their continued health and protection. We hope you will take pride in all that we have accomplished together in 2008 and plan to accomplish in 2009.

Mr. and Mrs. John Abplanalp Ms. Leslie A. Cornfeld Riverkeeper gratefully acknowledges the $1,000 AND GREATER Mr. Jed Alpert Mr. Roger Davidson generous contributions of our private corpo- Aronovitz Family Foundation Mr. Dario Amicucci Ms. Ann Davlin rate and public supporters and members, Bayberry Capital Group, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ascher Mr. and Mrs. Richard Handler who number more than 5,000 a year. Space The Brook Fund Inc Mr. James Attwood and Ms. Leslie Kim Williams Mr. Tom Hanks and Ms. Rita Wilson limitations and eco-wise production stan- Brownington Foundation Ms. Clara Bingham Ms. Renee Lewis dards allow us to present donors of $500 and Cabrini College Mr. Ron Blaylock and Ms. Judy Byrd Mr. and Mrs. John Macfarlane greater in this presentation. This listing Con Edison Solutions, Inc. Ms. Christina Bloom Ms. Kristin Mannion reflects contributions received between July Creative Differences Productions, Inc. Mr. James Cavanaugh Mr. Christopher McNally 1st, 2007 and June 30th, 2008. Dixon Talent, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Neidich Gant U.S.A. Corporation Mr. Glenn Dubin and Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paduano The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation GIFTS OF $100,000 AND Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Durst Mr. Campion Platt The Helping Hand Elisha & Lynn Wiesel Charitable Fund Mr. Rory Riggs HSBC Bank USA GREATER The Gage Fund Ms. Deborah Robinson Kent-Lucas Foundation Common Sense Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gleberman Mr. John Robinson Kokatat, Inc. Hess Foundation, Inc. Ms. Lucille Hamlin Mrs. Mary Calder Rower LeCroy The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George Hornig Mr. Gerald Shargel Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc. Moore Charitable Foundation Ms. Donna Karan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smigel Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund Wallace Research Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Klopp Mr. Gary Swain New York City Green Car Inc. The John & Wendy Neu Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Michaels Ms. Minerva Taylor Patagonia Upper West Side Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tudor Jones Ms. Bette Midler Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tonetti Robert & Jane Harrison Family Foundation Mrs. Nicole Miller and Mr. Kim Taipale Ms. Katrina Vanden Heuvel and The Round River Foundation $50,000 AND GREATER Mrs. Jami Morse von Heidegger and Mr. Stephen Cohen Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust Mr. Klaus von Heidegger Mr. Chris Wedge and Ms. Jeanne Markel Stuart - Dean Co., Inc. AIG, Inc. Mr. Paul Newman and Mrs. Joanne Woodward Mr. Jonathan Wege AIG Environmental Thendara Foundation Mr. Michael Novogratz and Ms. Sukey Caceres Water Asset Management Fashion Accessories Benefit Ball Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paulson, Jr. $2,500 AND GREATER ICAP Services North America LLC Mr. Robert Pew Artfag LLC Ms. Lori Adair Mr. and Mrs. Scott Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pittman Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. Mr. Michael Allocco Mr. and Mrs. Eric Fischl Mr. Bradford Rand The David Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. Stanley Alpert Mr. and Mrs. David Kowitz Ms. Eva Ruzin Dickler Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Altschuler Mr. Jay McInerney and Mr. Harvey Schwartz Eileen Fisher, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Arnaboldi Mrs. Anne Hearst McInerney Mr. Mitchell Slater Foundation Sweet Success Mr. Dan Aykroyd and Mrs. Donna Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Resnick Mr. John-Frederick Thye Hudson River Improvement Fund Mr. Zack Bacon, III Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rubin The Judy Family Foundation Dr. Endre Balazs and Dr. Janet Denlinger Mr. Steve Some $5,000 AND GREATER Lans Eisner Family Foundation Ms. Norena Barbella Bloomberg LP Mulago Foundation Mr. Richard Baskin $10,000 AND GREATER Butler Conservation Fund The New York City Environmental Fund Mr. Norman Bauman 1199 SEIU New York’s Health & Human Capital Trust, Inc. The Public Concern Foundation, Inc. Mr. Paul Beckler Service Union Confluence Holdings Richard Baker Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brian Bedol Anonymous Constellar Capital Willis Re Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Belau Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation The Hudson River Defense League Mr. Robert Beshar Ms. Michelle Adelman Ms. Michelle Boffa The Camarda Charitable Foundation In Demand Network Mr. and Mrs. Paul Adler The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation ING Americas Mr. and Mrs. Howard Borowick Mr. Roger Ailes Mr. Spike Brant Conde Nast Traveler J.M. Kaplan Fund Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Benjamin Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation Jay & Kelly Sugarman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brosens Ira Blumenthal Ms. Melissa Brown Girardi & Keese Kenneth Cole Foundation Mrs. Ann Colley Anonymous Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Buffett Ms. Adelaide DeMenil Ms. Sarah Cogan Indus Capital Partners, LLC Macy’s, Inc. Mrs. Muffin Dowdle Jackson & Campbell, P.C. Madison Square Garden, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cullen Ms. Mootsy Elliot Mr. Kevin Cullen Johanette Wallerstein Institute The Marks Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ettinger John and Daniel Tishman Family Fund, Inc. Maverick Capital Charities Mr. Thompson Dean Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Guenther Mr. and Mrs. Ron Delsener Kingdon Capital Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc. John N. Gilbert & Gillett A. Gilbert Family Fund KPMG LLP Paragon Athletic Goods Co., LLC Mr. and Mrs. Larry Divney Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Kasowitz Steven Dubner Lehman Brothers Pier Sixty, LLC Ms. Yung Hee Kim Lord & Taylor Ports America, Inc. Mr. Ralph Falls Ms. Taryn Lawrence Mr. Richard Farley Louise G. Harper Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Stonyfield Farm Ms. Danielle Levy The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation The Vervane Foundation Mr. Joe Finnegan Mr. Gary Lippman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Flavin Mariposa Foundation Waste Management Mr. Michael Mandel Marwood Group & Co. USA, LLC Whole Foods Market M.S. Forelli Ms. Lisa Marber-Rich Ms. Colleen Foster New York State Council on the Arts Mr. William Abranowicz and Dr. John McGrath New York State Department of Mr. and Mrs. John Furfaro Mrs. Andrea Raisfeld Mr. and Mrs. Terence Meehan Ms. Linda Rothenberg Gelfond Environmental Conservation Mr. Dan Algrant and Ms. Elise Pettus Mr. Dennis Mehiel The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. Mr. Elliot Goldenthal Ms. Katherine Arthaud Mrs. Ann Mesnikoff Crystal Mr. Kenneth Griffin Plaza Cleaning Service Co., L.P. Mr. Andre Balazs Ms. Laura Moore Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grodin Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bandier Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Moran Ms. Deborah Harry Rockefeller Family & Associates Mr. Bruce C. Blank and Ms. Jill Kalman Mr. James Nederlander The Silberstein-Boesky Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. H. Peter Haveles, Jr. Ms. Binta Brown Ms. Lisa O’Connor Ms. Amanda Hearst Tear of the Clouds, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butler Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Perella The Teitelbaum Family Charitable Remainder Ms. Gillian Hearst-Shaw Mr. Donald Carey Mr. Matthew Rand Mr. Brad Hendricks Unitrust Mr. Kenneth Chenault Mr. and Mrs. David Seeler TIBI, LLC Ms. Ariane Herrera Mr. Yvon Chouinard Mr. J. Rutherford Seydel, II Ms. Randi Marie Hoffmann United States Tennis Association Ms. Glenn Close and Mr. David Shaw Mr. and Mrs. David Stern Wenner Media LLC Mr. Edmund Hollander Ms. Bridget Cooke Ms. Olivia Zaleski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jacobson 24 COM . ULLAN M C M ATRICK //P ULLAN M C M ATRICK P COPYRIGHT © SPECIAL THANKS TO Mr. and Mrs. David Jaffe Ms. Lucy Winton Mrs. Barbara Iason and Mr. Robert Buford Ms. Anna Jeffrey Ms. Nancy Woods Ms. Cherie Ingraham and Mr. Bobbo Jetmundsen Mr. Richard Ziegelasch Mr. Richard Feuerman ANN COLLEY Mrs. Lindsay Johnson Mr. Paul Johnson-Calderon Ms. Kristina Johnson $500 AND GREATER Mr. James Judd EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF Mrs. Ellen Kaidanow ABC Home & Planet Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Kane THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION Mr. Robert Katz The Alexander Family Foundation Mrs. Diane Keefe and Mr. John Levin Mr. Felix Kaufman Audrey & Martin Gruss Foundation Ms. Geraldine Kunstadter Ann Colley, a Riverkeeper Ms. Yukako Kawata AXA Foundation Mr. Gregory LaFiura Ms. Annie Keating Citizens Energy Corporation Ms. Helena Lee and Mr. Richard Klapper board member who serves on Ms. Jean Kennedy Smith DJ McManus Foundation Ms. Heidi Lurensky the Executive Committee, is a Mr. Charles Klein Edward B. Whitney Fund Mr. Timothy Lynch Mr. Craig Klosk and Ms. Tricia Kallett Garrison Station Plaza Inc. Ms. Angela Lyras true Hudson River hero. Kenneth Kobrick Lavori Sterling Foundation Mr. Greg MacGillivray Mr. Orin Kramer Mathis Pfohl Foundation Mr. Dean Maffei Ann is the Executive Director Ms. Deborah Lans Scarborough Presbyterian Church Dr. and Mrs. G.C. Matthiessen of the Moore Charitable Foun- Mr. and Mrs. Ira Leventhal Sorenson Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John McCooey Ambassador John Loeb, Jr. The Tony Bennett 1994 Family Trust Dr. Michael McGarvey dation (MCF), founded by one Ms. Linda Luca Mr. and Mrs. John Adams Mr. Woodson Merrell of Riverkeeper’s staunchest Mrs. Emily Malloy Ms. Jane Alexander and Mr. Edwin Sherin Mr. Russell Miller Mr. and Mrs. Peter Matthiessen Mr. and Mrs. Brian Appel Mindset Media supporters, Louis Bacon. Ms. Alison Mazzola Mr. R. Scott Asen Ms. Kachina Myers Spyros and Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Ms. Erin McGonagle Mr. Greg Barber Mr. George Spyros Ms. Florence Milch Mr. Scott Barringer Mr. and Mrs. Toby S. Myerson Bacon, Ann and MCF have had Mr. Steven Mnuchin Mr. Christopher Bartle and Mrs. Eva Gartner Ms. Maryon Noble Mr. Allen Monks Ms. Shelley Beckler Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Pien a profound impact in advanc- Mr. Samuel Nappi Mr. Jon Beyman Mr. Eric Pike ing critical environmental work Network for Good Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Blank Mr. Lee Prisament and Mrs. Marcia Rappaport Mr. Greg Orrill Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blitzer Ms. Carole Radziwill in our region and beyond. In Mr. Andrew Paul Ms. Bonnie Raitt Mr. Stuart Boesky addition to supporting key Mr. Alvin Perlmutter Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bontecou Dr. and Mrs. Irwin Redlener Mrs. Lisa Perry Mr. Terence Boylan and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Resnick campaigns at Riverkeeper, the Mr. and Mrs. Rob Pitts Ms. Illiana Van Meeteren Mr. and Mrs. Robert Riley Mr. William Plotch Mr. Joel Breitkopf Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robinson foundation was a founding fun- Mrs. Dana Polizzotto Ms. Pamela Brocious Ms. Elizabeth Rogers der of the Waterkeeper Alliance Mr. David Preiser Dr. Daniel Bythewood, DDS Mr. Andy Russell Ms. Maria Ragucci Cass and Abigail Canfield Ms. Tiffany Schauer and supports many ‘keeper’ Mrs. Nancy Raquet Mr. and Mrs. Clive Chajet Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schwartz Ms. Sara Redlich Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Chazen Mr. and Mrs. Pete Seeger programs throughout the coun- Mr. David Rhodes Ms. Judith Chiara Mr. Michael Shimkin and Mrs. Barbara Fiorito try. Ann serves as a Waterkeeper Prof. Nicholas Robinson Mr. Paul Childs Mr. Joshua Shimpfky Anonymous Mr. John Travis Compton Mr. and Mrs. Robert Soros Alliance Trustee. Mr. Charles Rosenthal Mr. Kevin Spath Ms. Aubria Corbitt As chair of our nominating Ms. Diane Roth Ms. Juliet Dickey Ms. Margot Spindelman Ms. Fiona Rudin Mr. Jason Duran Mr. and Mrs. Ken Starr committee, Ann has brought to Sean Sabol Ms. Suzanne Durst Ms. Jane Stevens Mrs. Betsy Salinger Mr. and Mrs. William Edsall Mr. David Strathaim the Board an impressive new Ms. Susan Sarandon Ms. Gertrude Farrington Mr. and Mrs. Tom Strauss group of Riverkeeper champi- Ms. Virginia Sarvalon Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fichman Ms. Eugenie Sullivan Mr. David Scherff Ms. Janet Fisher Ms. Anne Sumers ons. In 2000, she was instru- Ms. Frances Schultz Ms. Jeremy Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Sumers Ms. G. Lynn Shostack Ms. Elissa Friedman Ms. Carolyn Summers mental in bringing in new Ms. Maria Shriver Ms. Judi Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tcherepnine leadership that has helped the Mr. Todd Slotkin Ms. Laura Friedman Mr. Mark Testa and Mrs. Cynthia Jones Ms. Connie Steensma and Mr. Richard Prins Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friou Ms. Leah Tinari organization experience tremen- Mr. David Stone Mrs. Kristine Torre Gaier and Mr. Matthew Gaier Mr. and Mrs. David Gernert dous growth over the last Ms. Dana Stuart-Bullock Ms. Alisha Goldstein Mr. Geoff Wahl Mr. Jack Swain III Mr. Gary Goldstein Mr. Roger Weisberg and Mrs. Karen Freedman decade. When Riverkeeper hon- Ms. Kathleen Tait Mr. and Mrs. MarkGormley Ms. Alecia Wesner Mrs. Frederick Tanne Ms. Patricia Grady Mr. Edward Whitney ored Louis Bacon in 2001, Ann Mr. Mark Tarantina Mr. and Mrs. Larry Grafstein Mr. Arden Wohl helped orchestrate our most suc- Dr. Robert Tash Mr. and Mrs. Bill Guardenier Mr. Peter Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Mark Taylor Ms. Christine Guy Mr. Michael Young cessful annual dinner to date. Ms. Julie Taymor Mr. Nicholas Zocchi Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hart Riverkeeper is supremely Mr. Roy Thinnes Mr. Tim Hartung Mr. Victor Tomlinson Ms. Holidae Hayes Every effort has been made to ensure the grateful for Ann’s ongoing Mr. George Torpe Ms. Cherie Henderson accuracy of donor names and contributions. Mr. Judson Traphagen Mr. Eric Herschmann To advise of corrections, please call Allison commitment to our work and HEN

Mr. Ronald Treveloni Mr. Joe Hoban Chamberlain at 914-478-4501, ext. 232. C Mrs. Gina Valeri for the tremendous energy and EFF

Ms. Michelle Hobart and Mr. Justin Peyser J Mr. Tim Wallach Mr. John Huba talents she brings to helping us Mr. William Walsh Mr. Bryan Hughes Mr. Alan Wanzenberg Mr. and Mrs. William Huppuch advance our mission, making Mr. Peter Wege Mr. Peter Hurwitz and Ms. Donna Pylman COPYRIGHT © her a true hero of the Hudson 25 for all New Yorkers. Corner RIVERKEEPER NEWS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Volunteer Member Communications Go Green shores. Riverkeeper will be iverkeeper would not be as effective in protecting the Hudson Riverkeeper has been working participating in these events, RRiver and the NYC Watershed were it not for the talents and hard to reduce our carbon foot- sharing an exhibit on the enthusiasm of hundreds of individuals who generously donate their print. To that end we are making Hudson River with commu- time and energy. the following changes: nities throughout the Here are a few ways to begin or continue volunteering: I One Riverkeeper Journal:we Hudson Valley. Check our I Become a Riverkeeper Docent – share the Riverkeeper story will now print one Riverkeeper website for an updated with school and community groups. Journal a year, instead of calendar of our appearances I Work at a Riverkeeper Event – join the team of volunteers two, on recycled paper, and please come out to see us! who make our events run smoothly. naturally. I Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA) I Ta ke B a c k t h e Ta p – meet fellow New Yorkers and encourage them I Fewer Member Mailings: we Conference: this year New to kick the bottled water habit at one of our Tap Campaign events. are cutting back drastically York City has the honor of I Intern with our Legal Team – lawyers and law students support on the number of mailings hosting the annual WKA our staff attorneys on case work during semester long internships. we send to your home. Please Conference, which brings I Support our Operations – skilled volunteers are needed for read them when you see them together 185 waterway pro- grant research, mailings and other important office support roles. as each will include timely tectors from six continents. I “Ring Up the River” – join our new phone bank program, speak- updates on our work. Riverkeeper and our other ing directly to people like yourself on the issues you care about. I More Online: we have been two area hosts, NY/NJ I Clean up the River or Plant a Tree – come out and help with improving our website to Baykeeper and Long Island clean ups and planting of buffers zones, reducing the amount of include more options for our Soundkeeper, will hold a trash in our waterways. members to manage their picnic in June to bring our Contact Heartie Look at 914-478-4501 x252 or [email protected] preferences, take actions and members together with this to get involved. stay current. You can also interesting group of environ- keep up on Riverkeeper news mental leaders. and events on Facebook and I Shad Fest: in light of the MySpace. many extra events added to our calendar this year, we ANDELMAN

Special Riverkeeper Events in 2009 will not have our traditional H I Quadricentennial Events: Shad Fest celebration. We OROTHY 2009 offers many opportuni- plan to bring back Shad Fest D ties to gather in honor of the in 2010. We hope to see you 400th Anniversary of Henry at the WKA picnic and else- HOTO COURTESY

Hudson’s arrival on our where throughout the year. P Volunteers running a blind tap water taste test at Water Fest.

ROWN KAREN KELLY KLOPP B

ELISSA Among Riverkeeper’s hardest filmmaker, author and entre- Karen leaves Riverkeeper a M working volunteers are our preneur who has contributed stronger organization, better board members. They support substantially to our growth equipped to protect our region’s OURTESY OF C us through thick and thin, and success. After more than a water resources than at any HOTO

P bringing to the organization a decade of service as a time in our history. We are wide range of skills and con- Riverkeeper director, Karen grateful to Karen for her many tributions. One such talented has retired from the board contributions during her time and dedicated board member this year to devote her full with Riverkeeper and are proud has been Karen Kelly Klopp. attention to launching a new to be able to still count her as Karen is an accomplished business venture. an ardent supporter and friend.

Visit www.riverkeeper.org and sign-up for our E-Newsletter and E-Alerts to stay current on news and events. 26 BALANCE SHEET As of June 31, 2008

ASSETS 4% Property & Equipment 1% Security Deposit Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,423,070 57% 2% Prepaid Expenses Pledges receivable $ 806,728 31% Investments $ 132,289 5% 31% Property and Equipment (net) $ 113,824 4% 57% Pledges Cash and cash Prepaid expenses $ 61,988 2% receivable equivalents Security deposit $ 24,467 1% Total Assets $ 2,562,366 5% Investments

7% Accounts payable LIABILITIES Accounts payable $ 185,437 7% Total liabilities $ 185,437 17% Temporarily NET ASSETS restricted 76% Unrestricted Unrestricted $ 1,942,983 76% Temporarily restricted $ 433,946 17% Total Net Assets $ 2,376,929 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 2,562,366

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Year ended June 31, 2008

SUPPORT AND REVENUE 1% Investment Revenue 1% Other Revenue Contributions $ 2,171,307 48% 8% Donated Services Special events $ 1,805,207 48% Donated legal services $ 373,175 8% Investment revenue $ 32,474 1% 48% Other revenue $ 41,999 1% Contributions Total support and revenue $ 4,424,162

48% Special events

16% Fund-raising EXPENSES Program services $ 3,272,881 78% Fund-raising $ 667,734 16% Management $ 236,678 6% 6% Management

Total Expenses $ 4,177,293 78% Program Surplus/Increase in Net Assets $ 246,869 Services

REPORTS PREPARED BY KATARINA DUPLESSY, VP, COO

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2009 Events Calendar April – September

New York’s Leading Clean Water Advocate April 24 – 25 Grand Central Earth Day Grand Central Terminal, NYC Spring 2009

May 29 Mountain Jam Music Festival Catskills, NY THE STATE OF THE

RIVER1609-2109 June5–13 Hudson River Day Celebration & Relay Flotilla Starting in Battery Park, NYC with stops in river towns to Albany

June 7 Hudson River Fest Celebration Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: “How’s the Water?” Riverkeeper Tests Water Quality Gas Drilling: June 20 – 21 Clearwater River Festival Croton Point Park, Croton, NY The Latest Threat to the NYC Watershed June 27 Waterkeeper Alliance Picnic TBD

Ads now July 25 – 26 The Namesake Celebration Halfmoon Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY available in Riverkeeper Sept.1–15 Henry Hudson 400 Celebration New York Harbor Journal Sept.9–10 H209 Forum / Water Conference Liberty Science Center, Elizabeth, NJ

Please contact Sept. 24 – 25 Albany Riverfront Festival Albany Riverfront Park, Albany, NY us for more information at [email protected] Visit www.riverkeeper.org for updates on times and locations