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C:\Documents and Settings\Nick\Desktop\2006\COVER06.Wpd INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION A TRI-STATE WATER AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY 2006 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION Formerly the INTERSTATE SANITATION COMMISSION INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS NEW YORK CONNECTICUT Judith L. Baron John Atkin Chairperson Vice Chair Gerard J. Kassar Richard Blumenthal Treasurer J. Robert Galvin, M.D., M.P.H. Donna B. Gerstle Regina McCarthy Denise M. Sheehan Patricia M. P. Sesto Rose Trentman NEW JERSEY Frank A. Pecci Vice Chair Lisa P. Jackson Fred M. Jacobs, M.D., J.D. John M. Scagnelli *** ** * Howard Golub Executive Secretary Boris Rukovets Assistant Secretary Eileen D. Millett Counsel INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION STAFF Howard Golub Executive Director and Chief Engineer Boris Rukovets Assistant Executive Director and Assistant Chief Engineer Eileen D. Millett General Counsel Engineering Laboratory Peter L. Sattler Pradyot Patnaik Nicholas S. Protopsaltis Evelyn R. Powers Brian J. Mitchell Inna Golberg Kristen J. Barshatzky Field Investigation Administrative William M. McCormack Carmen L. Leon Caitlyn P. Nichols Elizabeth M. Morgan Bonnie P. Hickey Fay L. Lau Gillian M. Spencer Kristin L. Titmas STATEMENT OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION As I near the end of my second term as Chairperson of the Interstate Environmental Commission, I look back with pride and see the environmental progress we have achieved in virtually all of our programs. Being Chairperson of the sole environmental agency in the Tri-State Area with both regulatory and enforcement powers is both a great honor and a great responsibility. It is incumbent upon us to make clear that it is the IEC’s responsibility to encourage and promote interstate cooperation, and to stay fully informed on all matters and issues concerning the quality of our interstate waters. To that end, I am delighted to report that we continue to enhance our reputation and prestige both within our Metropolitan Area of jurisdiction and among interstate commissions that reach from Canada to the Mississippi. Our open lines of communication with our fellow interstate commissions facilitates our ability to stay current on all matters affecting the quality of our interstate waters and, in turn, to quickly react to potential problems within our Region. While we have been actively seeking grants to supplement our traditional state and federal funding, I am pleased to report that this year we were successful in being awarded a research grant of approximately $200,000. It is only through the perseverance and dedication of the staff that this was possible; they are to be highly commended and, hopefully, this is only the first of many grants that the Commission will receive. I am gratified that the IEC again participated in World Water Monitoring Day which has become an annual event that takes place in October. This was the fourth annual World Water Monitoring Day, an event that IEC has participated in since it was started in 2002 as National Water Monitoring Day. The Commission joined with thousands of people around the world to collect water quality data that all the participants input to an international data bank. This international monitoring partnership of the public; state, interstate and local governments; federal agencies and countries throughout the world is an excellent example of the importance of involvement at all levels to protect the environment. I am proud that we have been a part of this effort since its inception. This Report contains highlights of the Commission’s extensive involvement in water monitoring surveys, including special intensive surveys to support both the Long Island Sound Study and the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program. It gives me great pleasure to report the completion of our 16th year of monitoring in Long Island Sound to document dissolved oxygen conditions. It is our sixth year of monitoring for pathogens in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Complex, our eleventh year of sampling shellfish CO N T E N T S PAGE I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 WATER POLLUTION 3 AIR POLLUTION 5 II. WATER POLLUTION 6 GENERAL 6 CONNECTICUT WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANTS 8 NEW JERSEY WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANTS 14 NEW YORK WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANTS 23 AMBIENT AND EFFLUENT WATER QUALITY MONITORING 61 SPECIAL INTENSIVE SURVEYS 63 2006 AMBIENT WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN LONG ISLAND SOUND TO DOCUMENT DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONDITIONS 63 AMBIENT WATER QUALITY COOPERATIVE STUDIES 73 2005-2006 MICROBIOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN THE SHELLFISH HARVESTING WATERS OF WESTERN RARITAN BAY 73 2006 AMBIENT WATER QUALITY MONITORING FOR PATHOGENS ACROSS HUDSON RIVER TRANSECTS 76 PATHOGEN TRACK DOWN ON THE BYRAM RIVER 80 WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY 83 HARBOR-WIDE WATER QUALITY MONITORING ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY HARBOR COMPLEX 84 2006 BOAT INSPECTION TRIP 84 REGIONAL BYPASS WORKGROUP 87 CLEAN WATER ACT SECTION 305(b) WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT 89 STORET 90 PROPOSED REVISIONS TO DISSOLVED OXYGEN SURFACE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR MARINE WATERS 92 NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAM 92 PAGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS AND MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEMS 94 PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 96 III. AIR POLLUTION 99 GENERAL 99 AIR POLLUTION COMPLAINTS 99 OZONE HEALTH MESSAGE SYSTEM 101 REGIONAL AIR POLLUTION WARNING SYSTEM 101 IV. LEGAL ACTIVITIES 102 MITIGATING NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF NEW YORK CITY’S OPERATION AT THE FRESH KILLS LANDFILL 102 ADDRESSING NITROGEN IMPACTS AND COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW IMPACTS OF SOME NEW YORK CITY SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS 107 APPENDIX A - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS DISCHARGING INTO INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRICT WATERS - 2006 A-1 APPENDIX C - INTERSTATE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION FINANCIAL STATEMENT FY 2006 B-1 APPENDIX D - GLOSSARY C-1 I L L U S T R A T I O N S PAGE MAP Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Interstate Environmental District 7 PHOTO East Avenue Pump Station With Long Island Sound in Background, West Haven Water Pollution Control Plant, New Haven County, Connecticut 12 PHOTO New Final Clarifier and UV Disinfection Facility, Westport Water Pollution Control Facility, Fairfield County, Connecticut 13 PHOTO Bar Screens Being Off-Loaded, Middlesex County Utilities Authority, Middlesex County, New Jersey 17 PHOTO Newly Installed UV Disinfection, Glen Cove Water Pollution Control Facility, Nassau County, New York 30 PHOTO New Support Timbers and Hardware for Outfall Pier, Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District, Nassau County, New York 31 PHOTO BNR-SBR Construction, Huntington Sewer District, Nassau County, New York 33 PHOTOS Site of New Treatment Facility in Hillburn, New York, Rockland County Sewer District #1, Rockland County, New York 51 PHOTO SBRs Under Construction With Port Jefferson Harbor in Background, Suffolk County Sewer District #1, Suffolk County, New York 52 PHOTO Cold Spring Harbor Light, August 2006 60 PHOTO Water Quality Data Recording, July 2006 61 MAP 2006 Long Island Sound Study, Ambient Water Quality Sampling Stations 64 TABLE 2006 Long Island Sound Study Sampling Stations 65 PHOTO Secchi Disc, August 2006 66 CHARTS Long Island Sound Study — 2006 Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring — Surface and Bottom Waters — Pie Charts 68 CHARTS Long Island Sound Study — 2005-2006 Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring — Surface and Bottom Waters — Pie Charts 69 CHARTS Long Island Sound Study — 2006 Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring — Average and Range of All Bottom and Surface Waters Sampled — Profiles 71 CHARTS Long Island Sound Study — 2006 Monthly Bottom Water Temperature Distribution in Long Island Sound — Profiles 72 PAGE MAP 2005-2006 Sampling Stations for Microbiological Surveys in the Shellfish Harvesting Waters of Western Raritan Bay 74 TABLE 2005-2006 Sampling Station Locations for Microbiological Surveys in the Shellfish Harvesting Waters of Western Raritan Bay 75 MAP 2006 Ambient Water Monitoring for Pathogens Across Hudson River Transects 78 TABLE 2006 Sampling Station Locations for Ambient Water Monitoring for Pathogens Across Hudson River Transects 79 PHOTOS 2006 Sampling Stations for Pathogens Across Hudson River 80 MAP Pathogen Track Down on the Byram River 82 PHOTOS Byram River Pathogen Track Down 83 PHOTO Oyster Dredge in Norwalk Harbor, August 2006 85 MAP 2006 Boat Inspection Trip 86 CHART 2006 Bypass Events - Common Causes 88 CHART 2006 Bypass Events Per Waterway 89 TABLE 2005 Individual Use Support in the Interstate Environmental District 91 TABLE 2006 MS4 Dry Weather Inspections, Nassau and Richmond Counties, NY 97 PHOTO Water Quality Monitoring on Newark Bay with Bayonne, NJ, High School Marine Science Students 98 CHART Air Pollution Complaints, 1982-2006 100 CHART Communities Impacted by Odors, 1982-2006 100 PHOTO Skimmer Boat at Fresh Kills Landfill 105 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When the Commission was created in 1936, the tri-state waters were in terrible condition. World renown shellfish beds were condemned; shorelines were littered with debris, and rotting carcases of farm animals and fish greeted newcomers to the great Melting Pot. Minimal industrial regulation caused local rivers and streams to be unusable; even transportation was hindered by floating debris from collapsing piers and derelict vessels. These activities put ever-increasing demands and stresses on the coastal systems. This was a time when interstate conflicts arose regarding the sanitary conditions of the waters surrounding and shared by the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Because the vitality of the Tri-State Metropolitan Area is an integral part of the economy
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