Swimming in the Hudson River and Its Tributaries

Lower Hudson Impact

PCBs Cleanup Closing Indian Point Having won the fight to begin To stop the slaughter of 1.2 billion dredging, we work with a coalition fish annually, and end the looming to ensure a complete cleanup to risk of nuclear catastrophe, we rid our fish of toxic waste. aim to close the plant rather than license it for 20 more years. Patrols & Watchdogs We patrol from NY Harbor to Riverkeeper Sweep Waterford—nearly 6,000 miles In 2012, 450 volunteers cleaned annually—stop pollution, more than 7 tons of trash from 30 including sewage overflows in river towns, including Croton, recent years in Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry, Hastings, Sleepy Hollow, with the help of Haverstraw, Ossining, Peekskill, citizen watchdogs. Piermont and Sleepy Hollow.

Water Quality Tappan Zee Bridge Project We test the water against EPA We argue for a detailed analysis safe swimming standards at 74 of alternatives and financing, and Hudson River sites, and dozens to reduce or eliminate impacts to more, including in the Pocantico the Hudson River ecosystem. River and Sparkill Creek, with the help of local volunteers. Drinking Water We protect the NYC watershed Sewage Pollution that provides 85% of Westchester Right to Know Act County drinking water, and are A new law, inspired in part by our working to prevent the water quality data, means construction of a desalination treatment plants must soon notify plant for Rockland County. the public after releasing untreated sewage to waterways. Fracking Having successfully kept fracking Shoreline Development out of the watershed that supplies We argue for public access, 9 million New York City and pollution remediation and habitat Hudson Valley residents with restoration, including at the GM unfiltered drinking water, we site in Sleepy Hollow. continue to fight to prevent

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