2011 ANNUAL JOURNAL

COM MU NTI I ES RSI ING TAKING BACK OUR WATERWAYS Board of Directors Your Riverkeeper, Your Victories Dr. Howard A. Rubin David Kowitz Chair John McEnroe Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. We’re at a defining moment in the battle to protect the Hudson Vice Chair Anne Hearst McInerney River and New York’s drinking water. Peggy Cullen John Moore Secretary Michael Richter From the halls of Congress to local village offices, a destructive Jeff Resnick Dennis Rivera Treasurer logic has taken hold: environmental protection costs jobs – Renee Rockefeller John H. Adams it’s a luxury we can’t afford in times like these . While a few

Joe Boren Ronald A. DeSilva thoughtful public officials still stand up for continued invest - Emeritus Lorraine Bracco Arthur Glowka ment in clean water, their influence has plummeted. Why else Ann Colley Emeritus would New York’s environmental agency have suffered 28% staff cuts since 2008 – nearly Justin Derfner Henry Lewis Kingsley Emeritus four times more than the state average? Hamilton Fish Richard R. Knabel We can beat back the forces that would sell out our environment, because we have a Amanda Hearst Emeritus

George Hornig better vision: if you want a sustainable economic recovery, make the Hudson River fishable and swimmable again, reclaim our abandoned toxic sites and keep New York’s drinking

Staff water the envy of cities all over the world. Paul Gallay John Lipscomb Riverkeeper has been New York’s leading clean water advocate for 45 years. In the past Executive Director & Patrol Boat Captain Hudson Riverkeeper Stella LiRosi year alone, we helped get General Electric and ExxonMobil, two of the world’s biggest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Manager of Operations Chief Prosecuting Attorney companies, locked into landmark hazardous waste cleanup agreements. The deadly toxics Phillip Musegaas Deborah Brancato Hudson River Program involved, PCBs in the upper Hudson and petroleum byproducts in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Staff Attorney Director have been there for over sixty years. When they’re gone, fish in the Hudson will finally be Allison Chamberlain Pamela Pinto Membership Services Membership & safe to eat again and residents of Greenpoint will no longer be host to the largest oil spill Manager Marketing Manager in state history. Gwendolyn Chambers Tina Posterli Online Media Producer Press Officer This is great news. Both cases received national coverage and Riverkeeper staff and sup - Annual Journal Editor Ramona Cearley Policy and Enforcement Mary Beth Postman porters alike should be proud of what we’ve achieved in Brooklyn and the Upper Hudson. Associate Chief of Staff to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. But, despite these victories, real dangers remain. New York officials may approve fracking Tara D’Andrea Major Gifts Manager Rebecca Troutman operations by gas drillers later this year, even though there’s new evidence that this ruinous Senior Counsel Rose Marie Grande practice taints drinking water supplies and spews toxics and radioactive wastes into our Administrative Assistant Josh Verleun Staff Attorney & Chief rivers and rural communities. Indian Point, the nation’s most dangerous nuke plant, kills Emily Griffin Investigator Outreach & Merchandise more than a billion fish and other aquatic life every year and cries out for closure. Coordinator Bill Wegner Staff Scientist Katherine Hudson Contaminated “superfund” sites still endanger communities up and down the Hudson. Watershed Program Keeva Young-Wright Director Vice President for Riverkeeper must redouble its efforts to fight these and other clean water battles, Development Chelsea Kadish whether in court, in the legislature or across the negotiating table. And, to be truly effective, Executive Assistant we need to work more closely with all the local advocates striving to build cleaner communities. After all, they’re the ones who started Riverkeeper and made us what we are today. As you read this year’s Riverkeeper Journal, think about how you can make a difference. Join Riverkeeper or renew your membership: give us the means to go after all the polluters government agencies can’t – or won’t — stop. Tell us about environmental problems in WWW .RIVERKEEPER .ORG

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n a cold, windy day in February, the Hudson River Water Quality team sat down to discuss their m Oproject. John Lipscomb, Riverkeeper’s patrol boat captain, oversees the effort. Tracy Brown works

a on communication and advocacy. The two scientists are Dr. Greg O’Mullan, an assistant professor at Queens College, and Dr. Andy Juhl, a research professor at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of r Columbia University. The study measures sewage contamination in the Hudson River Estuary. g How did this all begin? Why do regular testing of the requires. They ask the question o JOHN: So, this all started as a Hudson? in a way they can answer it. r response, really, to public inter - TRACY: My family lives in Sleepy And the question isn’t, ‘Is the

p est. Out on the water, the ques - Hollow, and we have a little water safe to swim in?’ The tion that the public is asking neighborhood beach club. The question is, ‘Does the water

r most is: ‘How’s the water? Can general assumption is if it wasn’t satisfy the regulatory rule that I go swimming?’ If we’re safe, they wouldn’t let us swim we established?’ The standards e gonna try to get Hudson Valley there. It’s a kind of ‘Ignorance don’t answer the question the

v residents engaged and working is Bliss’ situation. Out of the public is asking.

i for the good of the river, we ten counties along the Hudson

r have to respond to the prob - River estuary, only four of TRACY: And yet they set these lems that are real to them. them do any testing at all. And goals of a swimmable river. Early on, I started looking for typically the ones that test, do Not only do we have the feder - n a partner to help with this: a it just specifically at swimming al Clean Water Act, but we

o science partner. locations. And you have people have state goals to make it swimming the whole 150 miles. swimmable. But if you don’t s GREG: I was very eager to get And they do tubing, kayaking; measure it, you can’t manage it. involved in a local environmen - they swim from their boats. d tal issue from a scientific per - JOHN: We are the [testing] pio -

u spective. I was really searching ANDY: Not that long ago—a few neers in the Hudson! for that kind of connection, decades ago—there was no h which came via Riverkeeper. need to do testing for sewage GREG: [We’ve been sampling contamination. Because the for] enterococcus, a sewage- ANDY: I was down the hall. river was always contaminated. indicating microbe. When these [Laughter] No, a lot of the It’s pretty clear that water microbes are in high abun - The Hudson River Program team serves as work I’ve done over the years quality has improved tremen - dance, people tend to have investigator, scientist, has been involved with water dously. The problem is the sys - higher incidents of rashes or lawyer, lobbyist and quality. I have to admit I was tem is still being managed like gastrointestinal illness. public relations agent for the Hudson River somewhat surprised when we it was an industrial waterway. and its tributaries. first started: how little infor - Like it was fifty years ago. The JOHN: It’s a red flag that sewage mation there was. The fact that management approach has not is in the water. millions and millions of people caught up to the new reality: live in the Hudson Valley and that people view the Hudson ANDY: From the beginning, you yet are so poorly served in River as a recreational could see the benefit of the terms of water quality. And it resource. They’re going into partnership between the scien -

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What are you learning? ANDY: A lot of people would structure up there hasn’t been around Catskill, it’s very simi - JOHN: In the first years, our data assume, ‘Well, that’s from the upgraded in the same way. lar. It is, I think, pretty surpris - wasn’t that welcome by every - pipes coming directly out of ing to people who live in the one. It was because what we the sewage treatment plants. JOHN: In that Albany Pool area, less developed areas that their were showing was not the pretty Very few people would choose the sewage plants haven’t put frequency of sewage contami - picture that had been painted. to swim near them! Nevertheless, in disinfection yet. That’s com - nation is just as bad as the The State was saying, ‘Between you might actually be better ing on-line right now. New waters around Manhattan. the Albany district and the New off doing that. [Laughs] York State and the Capitol dis - When we show pictures of big York City line, go ahead and Because on average, the efflu - trict are saying, ‘How do we swimming events around swim.’ And then here comes ent that’s coming out of the treat these sources and make Manhattan, people are, like, rabble-rousers from Lamont and sewage treatment plants is bet - the water pass the New York “Oh, they’re crazy!” Queens and Riverkeeper, and ter than we see in a lot of the State water quality standard?’ the data is saying, ‘Hmm! tributaries. If they use an average, the GREG: But if you put the Approximately 24% of the time water will pass. But if you look Palisades in the background, it’s NOT okay.’ On average. JOHN: In October 2010, we had how many days a month the their assumptions can be very a day where every single sam - water quality was bad – and different. GREG: Studies from New York ple around New York City was you look at how bad it was — Harbor would suggest that in exceedence of federal stan - that’s the kind of science that’s ANDY: And based on real data, water quality is much better dards, except where we went gonna be helpful. ‘Cause when there’s no reason to think that than it was a few decades ago. right to that gigantic sewer you swim, you’re not swim - you’re any worse off—or any But it doesn’t mean that the plant at 125th Street—right on ming on an average day; you’re better off—swimming in either job is done. There’s still a sub - the upwelling where the bub - swimming on the day you’re in one of those locations. stantial amount of contamina - bles are coming up! That was the water. tion to the system. When the cleanest water that we How do you let the public know analyzing our data from the found that day. GREG: Maybe twenty or thirty what you’re finding? entire estuary, from NYC to years ago, for some parts of TRACY: The first part is getting Troy, in the midchannel 16% GREG: It’s a clear example of the the river, long term trends may the information out so people of our samples had high levels benefit to the upgrading of these have been adequate. Well, times are aware of what this problem of contamination. Near-shore plants. If we look at the average have changed. And the public is is. We’ve had three iterations the percentage of highly con - over time in the New York City very clearly telling us that times of our website. And it’s been taminated samples increases to region, we have 5 –6 Enterococcus have changed. But we haven’t very popular: lots of traffic. 24%, at the mouth of tributar - microbes per 100 milliliters mid- necessarily caught up. We’re sampling once a month, ies the percentage increases to channel. In Albany, that goes up six months a year, and now we 38%. There is still a lot of to 52. [EPA’s safety standard is ANDY: If you look at all the data have four years of data. People improvement needed. 33.] That’s because the infra - from Manhattan up river to (continued on page 6) Visit the Riverkeeper Boat Blog at www.hudsonriverkeeper.blogspot.com 5 m 75 sampling sites across are taking the data and saying, average over time—has a level exceed the EPA’s maximum. a r

g 155 miles of Hudson River, ‘Ok. Well, we see the water of 77. Beacon, just on the o r NY Harbor to Troy samples at our trib are contam - other side of the river, their ANDY: The vast majority of the p

r inated this percentage of the geometric means is 17. So, places are in-between. That e v i time. That’s not acceptable to opposite sides have different would be the dominant charac - r

n us.’ And then they start to issues. It really gets down to teristic I would like to convey: o

s work with their local govern - your local community. Not that almost any location has a d u

h ments. We had a great moment even the segment of the river, reasonable probability of being back in the fall where Fran but your local community. good most of the time and Dunwell—head of the Hudson occasionally being bad. River Estuary program showed TRACY: [People were assuming] a slide at a DEC conference ‘Oh, well, the Hudson is that Where do we go from here? presenting our data! She was big dirty thing that’s had indus - TRACY: In the near term, I’d like saying, ‘This is what we’re see - try, but my little stream is to see a New York State law ing from sewage contamina - always clean.’ Or, ‘Oh, well, that we have to be notified tion. There is a problem.’ the middle of the Hudson is about sewage contamination in going to be cleaner than down all of our waterways. I’d like JOHN: For us to see our data by the city.’ Or, ‘Well, if you to see regular monitoring and held up as THE science! We just don’t swim for two days reporting in a manner that’s went from kind of being the after a rain then you’re defi - easily accessible. Water is the spoiler, right? To being the nitely safe.’ All these assump - oil of this next century. This is mainstream, go-to stakeholder. tions that were widely held a hugely important resource. have been disproved by the What trends have you spotted so far? study. And that starts conversa - GREG: There’s a need for addi - GREG: One of the factors that tions. And is leading to action. tional studies to really under - we’ve been able to identify is stand why some places respond that these problems are prima - ANDY: There are a fair number differently than the others. And rily local. That wouldn’t have of hot spots—locations with to be able to come up with been the expectation in the past. frequent sewage contamination. predictions and forecasts that are reliable. JOHN: There’s a great tendency GREG: Similarly, at about 10% in all these communities to say, [of the sites] we haven’t found ANDY: I used to live in Pensacola. ‘If there’s a problem in the a single measurement that would Big tourist destination. And river, it’s General Electric up north, or it’s New York City to WATER QUALITY FINDINGS the south. What our data BY TYPE OF LOCATION, FROM 2006 –2010 shows is if you aren’t happy with your water quality, you According to Federal Guidelines don’t have to look across the river. An example: we started sampling in the Tarrytown marina, and we got some very high counts on rainy days. Clearly a place that has some rain infiltration and overflow issues. Tarrytown doesn’t have to talk to Nyack about the problem! Tarrytown has to talk to Tarrytown.

Percentage of Samples that were “Unacceptable” GREG: Up in the Newburgh/ Percentage of Samples that were “Possible Risk” Beacon area, on the Newburgh Percentage of Samples that were “Acceptable Riverkeeper samples at 75 sites throughout the Hudson River Estuary. Those sites fall into four side, the geometric means— categories: midchannel, near shore, tributaries and sewage treatment plant (STP) outfalls. which you can think of as an 6 every week, they would publish WATER QUALITY FINDINGS BY LOCATION, FROM 2006 –2010 water quality data from, I According to Federal Guidelines think, thirty different sampling locations. I don’t see any rea - son why we couldn’t have something like that: essentially a weather report for water quality. It’s a public health issue, but it’s also an economic development issue.

JOHN: Our immediate goal at Riverkeeper is to engage the public in the health of the river. And this sewage measuring is a tool to do that. The whole effort—and this is key—is to create an expectation in the public. We want them to expect to know about the water. And then there’s the deeper future. Ultimately, the river isn’t there for us to have a safe swim. The river has a right to exist regardless of how it benefits us or not. How do we try to disinfect this water? Do we use chlorine, or do we use ultra-violet light? Ultra-violent light leaves no residuals; chlo - rine is a poison. Are we gonna make it safe for swimming like it was a pool at a hotel? Or, are we gonna make it safe for swimming for all of the crea - tures that live in it? The idea that we can have a term on this planet “waste water” is a moment in time. We won’t be Percentage of Samples that were “Unacceptable” Percentage of Samples that were “Possible Risk” able to have “waste water” Percentage of Samples that were “Acceptable any more than we can have *There are two federal standards for water quality in the waters we sample, one for salt water and one for freshwater. For salt or brackish water the federal standard for unacceptable water quality is a single sample value of greater than 104 Enterococcus/100ml, or five or more samples with a geometric mean “waste gold” or “waste dol - (a weighted average) greater than 35 Enterococcus/100ml. For freshwater the federal standard is a single water sample with a value of greater than 61 lars” or “waste people.” Enterococcus/100ml, or five or more samples with a geometric mean greater than 33 Enterococcus/100ml. For more information visit: www.riverkeeper.org.

GREG: I’d love to see more peo - ment was to design the study make of it? Will our data lead getting involved? We’ll need ple connected to the river. And and go get the data. The sec - to change? Will the public look financial support—from the if this program does a little bit ond part of the experiment was at the water quality in the piggy-bank size donor to the of that, it’s really valuable. to present the data to the pub - Hudson and say, “No way. We foundation size donor. lic. The third part of the exper - have to do better.”? And if our JOHN: We’re at a turning point. iment is where we’re at right project is useful, are they GREG: We’re optimistic. We’ll The first part of the experi - now: what does the public gonna want to keep it going by find a way. I

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NEW YORKERS ON TRACK TO GET THEIR RIVER BACK! GE Agrees to Finish Historic PCB Clean-Up of the Hudson!

By RebeccaTroutman fter years of lobbying and activism by Riverkeeper and its Apartner groups, EPA issued instructions last December to General Electric to finish the Hudson PCB dredging project. Days later, bowing to pressures from the scientific and environ - mental community, GE agreed to EPA’s terms and New Yorkers are now finally poised to get their river back! 8 Basic History n 1984, EPA declared the Hudson (ultimately, plan for Phase 2. In the new In one of the worst environ - a 200-mile stretch of the river), as a federal plan, EPA required GE to mental tragedies of Hudson Superfund site – the largest toxic waste site improve its approach to the River and United States history, uncertain levels of contamina - between 1947 and 1977 in the country. tion and significantly lower the General Electric discharged rate at which it used capping approximately 1.3 million Resources Defense Council, indicated that 37% or more of as a solution. According to pounds of PCBs (polychlorinat - Scenic Hudson and Hudson the dredged areas had been EPA, the revised clean-up plan ed biphenyls) from two capaci - River Sloop Clearwater urged capped so as to contain will result in the removal of an tor plants in the upper Hudson members to let their voices be remaining PCBs. estimated 95% of the PCBs River. During the following heard in a flood of over 10,000 from the designated areas. decades of debate, study and e-mails to EPA. In a great vic - Riverkeeper Rejects However, under the 2006 stalling, this PCB contamina - tory for the environment, GE Excessive Capping Consent Decree, GE had tion, which spread as far down - announced last December that Riverkeeper and its allies retained the option of declining river as the Battery in New Phase 2 of the clean-up (which argued that this capping level to perform Phase 2. Moreover, York City, led to high levels of includes the vast majority of was unacceptable and would GE had in fact been pursuing a PCB contamination in fish tis - the removal work and will leave excessive levels of PCBs law suit in federal court to have sues. As PCBs are probable span 5 or more years) will in the river. In that capping is certain statutory provisions of human carcinogens, are linked commence this spring. not permanent – caps can be the governing federal law to health problems such as low disturbed by storms, erosion declared invalid (GE was birth weight, thyroid disease, Phase 1: Success and Issues and other forces — the toxic defeated in the lower courts, learning, memory and immune Phase 1 of the project included PCBs would be only temporari - where Riverkeeper and its part - system disorders, the fish toxic - about 6 months of dredging in ly contained and could become ners participated as amici , but ity led to the closing of various a short stretch of the upper- bioavaliable in the future. has petitioned the U.S. Supreme commercial fisheries and severe river near Fort Edward. This Riverkeeper insisted that GE’s Court for an appeal). And so, warnings on the consumption work was designed to remove corporate motivation to reduce all observers held their breath of Hudson fish. about 10% of the targeted costs should not be a driving while GE considered EPA’s new In 1984, EPA declared the material in approximately 18 factor to permit high levels of standards. Finally, on December Hudson (ultimately, a 200-mile Certification Units (CUs) desig - capping and that maximum 23, 2010, GE announced that it stretch of the river), a federal nated by the scientists. removal with scientific support had accepted EPA’s terms for Superfund site – the largest However, because the levels of should be the priority. During Phase 2 and that it would move toxic waste site in the country. contamination were far greater the review period, a panel of forward to prepare for Phase 2 Finally in 2002, EPA issued a than had been estimated, (fur - independent scientists was con - dredging in the spring of 2011. landmark Record of Decision ther underscoring the need for vened to examine the data and While environmentalists which required the dredging removal), only about 10 of the reports from both GE and EPA cheered, concerns remain removal of many so-called 18 CUs were completed. on Phase 1: their report stated about: (1) GE’s pending appeal “hot spots” of PCB contami - Related to this issue, as the that Phase 2 should go for - to the Supreme Court; (2) nated sediment in the Hudson. dredging operators were ward, but with various adjust - issues the company may raise EPA’s goal was to remediate pressed for time, an unfortu - ments and improvements. at future junctures seeking to the river so as to reduce the nately high level of “capping” either reduce the scope of work health risks to the ecosystem was permitted. Specifically, Phase 2: Decisions and in the project or halt it alto - and the public. In a subsequent instead of removing all target - GE Commits? gether; and (3) the levels of 2006 Consent Decree between ed contamination, decisions After months of intensive meet - contamination that may GE and EPA, a formal agree - were made to cover or “cap” ings and analysis, involving remain in the river, even if ment was implemented such certain areas to contain the multiple stakeholders, scientists Phase 2 is completed to EPA’s that the two phases of the left-behind PCBs, so that the and all levels of government specifications. Given the criti - dredging clean-up would be dredge operators could then (for example, Riverkeeper cal nature of this project for separated by a year of study more quickly move to another Executive Director Paul Gallay the future health of the and analysis. EPA, GE and area. By the end of Phase 1, and Senior Counsel Rebecca Hudson as well as its complex - other stakeholders, including approximately 293,000 cubic Troutman met with Adminis- ity, Riverkeeper will continue Riverkeeper, engaged vigorous - yards of PCBs were successful - trator Lisa Jackson to urge to closely monitor the clean-up ly in that process last year. ly removed from the river (a EPA to require maximum and to press for the best reme - Simultaneously, Riverkeeper higher total volume than had removal) finally on December dy possible for the river and its and partner groups Natural been targeted), but reports 17, 2010, EPA issued a revised communities. I 9 m a r g o r 2

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The Battle to Shut Down Indian Point By Deborah Brancato

Riverkeeper continues to wage a multi-front battle against the environmentally destructive ticking time bomb sitting on the shores of the Hudson River that is the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Engaged at a variety of forums at both the State and Federal levels, Riverkeeper is currently working a range of angles to ensure that Indian Point is no longer run at the expense of the environment, and ultimately, shut down for good:

1 The recent partial meltdowns at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Commission (NRC) issued a rule that would allow this kind of in Japan as the result of a devastating earthquake and resulting long-term storage in dry casks as well as pools, without requir - tsunami immediately raised serious questions about the ability ing any kind site-specific assessment of the long-term environ - of Indian Point to withstand a similar situation. Riverkeeper mental impacts. Riverkeeper recently challenged this rule in quickly sprang into action, calling for shutdown of the plant the ongoing Indian Point license renewal proceeding and pending an objective and independent analysis of the risk of joined a coalition of environmental groups to dispute the rule earthquake damage and its implications for plant operation, in Federal court. emergency response and evacuation planning. Riverkeeper is pursuing various efforts to guarantee that this issue is 3 In November 2010, an electrical transformer at Indian Point adequately addressed. was allowed to reach such a degraded condition that it explod - ed! Sound familiar? This happened with a different trans - 2 Lined up like bowling pins at the Indian Point site, dry cask former just 3 years ago. The owner of the plant, Entergy, also storage containers threaten to multiply and linger on the banks neglected to mention to the public that the incident resulted in of the Hudson River for decades to come. The worst part is the discharge of potentially thousands of gallons of oil into the that in December 2010, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Hudson River. Riverkeeper swiftly called for an independent 10 6 Radioactive leaks are problematic at many nuclear power 3 plants across the United States, and Riverkeeper is a critical stakeholder in an ongoing national policy debate about how to address this industry-wide problem. Riverkeeper’s Hudson River Program Director, Phillip Musegaas, has provided the public perspective and offered a range of recommendations at several meetings with the NRC to inform future policies and regulations aimed at addressing this ever-growing issue. Riverkeeper will continue to weigh-in until the government meaningfully addresses the problem.

7 Since 2003, Riverkeeper has been involved in a State permit - ting proceeding to ensure that Entergy upgrades Indian Point to use a closed-cycle cooling water system. Doing so would finally stop the ongoing slaughter of a billion aquatic organ - isms every year through entrainment, impingement, and ther - mal impacts. Entergy continues to fight tooth and nail to avoid 6 complying with the law. With a team of technical experts, including biologists and engineers, Riverkeeper is currently preparing for hearings in this matter.

8 In April 2010, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied a critical Water Quality Certification to Entergy, citing various violations of State stan - dards if Indian Point were to operate for an additional 20 years. The decision prevents Indian Point from obtaining a license extension, and Entergy is fighting aggressively to have it overturned. Riverkeeper is preparing to participate in hear - ings to ensure that DEC’s determination is ultimately upheld.

9 In December 2010, after almost a year long delay, the NRC issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement in the Indian investigation to ensure that Entergy doesn’t let this kind of Point license renewal proceeding. NRC’s assessment was lit - situation happen yet again. tered with inadequacies. Of note, NRC gave short shrift to impacts to endangered Shortnose sturgeon and threatened 4 Plain industrial buildings house pools of highly toxic, extremely Atlantic sturgeon, both known to be present near Indian Point. radioactive nuclear waste. Years of accidental leakage from Riverkeeper promptly raised this issue in the license renewal these pools has resulted in extensive plumes of contamination case. at the site that leach to the Hudson River. It is still not clear whether the leaking has stopped, and Entergy and NRC refuse 10 For years Riverkeeper has fought to require EPA to issue to fully assess the environmental impacts of the contamination, national regulations which require the “best technology avail - or implement adequate mitigation measures. After prolonged able” for power plants’ cooling water intakes. Numerous plants delay caused largely by the NRC, we are preparing to go to along the Hudson, including Indian Point, withdraw massive a hearing on this issue in the Indian Point license renewal amounts of water to cool their turbines, and in the process kill proceeding. billions of fish, larvae and eggs. EPA’s new federal rule is poised for imminent release, and Riverkeeper will be intensely engaged 5 Safety problems continually plague the Indian Point plant. in comment, analysis and advocacy in the coming months, Worn out metal components and corroded pipes threaten to seeking a stringent, legally compliant regulation. I cause significant safety consequences if Entergy operates Indian Point for another 20 years, as they want to. Backed by the expertise of a former NRC nuclear engineer and standing side-by-side with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Riverkeeper will raise these concerns at the upcoming license renewal hearing. 11 RIVERKEEPER ADVOCATE HIGHLIGHTS:

Giving a Voice to the Needs of our River ByTina Posterli

Susan Cleaver: Consolidated Iron & Metal S R

E bout 12 years ago, Susan Cleaver this day is remembering how I felt one hot summer afternoon when B M A

H was eating lunch at Gully’s float - a woman had set up a blanket on the boat launch and put her C A N Y

L ing restaurant on the waterfront in daughter in the water to cool off right next to the unmarked super - O D N

E the City of Newburgh, New York, fund site. She was simply using the water for the purpose it was W G when she caught a glimpse of intended with no knowledge of what was going on right next to her. Consolidated Iron & Metal across I said enough is enough!” the way. One of Riverkeeper’s most Soon Basil Seggos, Riverkeeper’s Chief Investigator at the time, avid watchdogs, she was well aware became involved and worked with Susan to contact the EPA letting that this was an Environmental them know that the site didn’t have proper identification and enclo - Protection Agency (EPA) designated sure around its parameter. The EPA responded quickly, stating Susan & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Superfund site, and she was seeing they’d have a fence up in 30 days, and actually delivering one in 10. with EPA sign from site. something that was horribly wrong. A sign declaring Consolidated Iron & Metal a Superfund site soon There were tires floating in the water, no fencing around the proper - followed. After pressing hard about the tires, Susan found out that ty and no signage to let anyone know the site was being remediated. they were not considered a part of the Superfund remediation law, Consolidated Iron & Metal is a part of a long Riverkeeper histo - so she began an active e-mail campaign to members of the press, ry that began in 1984 when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., first began government agencies, county politicians and environmental investigating Newburgh area polluters. His actions led to the site activists. She was successful in enlisting the help of Orange County ceasing operations in 1999 and being added to the EPA Superfund Executive Edward Diana and Elizabeth Evans, Executive Assistant National Priorities list in 2001. to the Newburgh City Manager, who stepped up and tackled the Susan, a photographer and freelance journalist, snapped some issue head on. Working together at the local level, they pushed long pictures that day then set out to make her voice heard. She con - and hard for the removal of the tires and about one year after tacted the New York State Department of Environmental Susan first started advocating for the site, the tires were removed. Conservation (DEC) to find out what was required at the site, Today, Consolidated Iron & Metal is a successfully completed which confirmed her concerns that it wasn’t being properly identi - Superfund Site with grass growing on the shoreline where tires and fied to the public. pollution used to live. In May 2011, Susan will spearhead a cere - She continued to make regular visits to the site and recalls a defin - mony at the site to celebrate people coming together for their right ing moment in moving her case forward: “What sticks with me to to clean water. I

Patrick Landewe: Lower Esopus Creek atrick Landewe wears many hats. He is a Riverkeeper watch - turbid waters of lower Esopus Creek where it flows into the Pdog, the Saugerties Lighthouse Keeper and serves on the Village Hudson. From a bird’s eye view atop the lighthouse, these photos of Saugerties Board of Trustees. Recently, his watchful eyes and showed the distinctive contrast between the muddy, turbid water of activism helped Riverkeeper in the prominent lower Esopus Creek the lower Esopus and the clear water of the river and were powerful turbidity issue (featured on page 18) , where the New York City evidence that Riverkeeper presented in the DEP turbidity issue. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that Patrick is also assisting the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership it has ended the release of turbid water into the Esopus and has (LEWP), a group formed in response to major flooding that discharged 1.5 billion gallons of clear water occurred along the creek and dedicated to fostering appreciation from the Ashokan Reservoir to clean out and stewardship of the Lower Esopus Watershed. In this role, he the silt. has become active in issues such as stream health, flood control Patrick’s proximity to the waterfront has and increasing recreational activities along the creek. Patrick is a been an invaluable resource to Riverkeeper firm believer in people getting to know the quality of water in over the years. He had already been work - their communities. “Once people become aware of what’s going on ing with Riverkeeper patrol boat captain in the water they recreate in, amazing things happen. They become John Lipscomb on water quality issues, advocates for their communities and things start to get done.” The assisting with water sampling near the work that LEWP has done has led to community discussions about mouth of the creek. He was in the perfect waterfront revitalization along the creek corridor. I position to take photographs of the 12 13 Shandaken Tunnel: Since 1999, Riverkeeper and a coalition of trout fishing enthusiasts, collectively represented by the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, have been Highlights of select suing to compel the City of New York to Riverkeeper legal cases operate its water supply in the Catskills in a manner that won’t cause or contribute to violations of state water quality standards. This series of cases has brought Riverkeeper and its allies to virtually every conceivable tribunal, from state trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we’ve prevailed in every court in which we’ve appeared. Most recent - ly, the City formally acknowledged that it cannot meet state water quality standards and applied to the NYCDEC for “variances from water quality based effluent limita - tions.” Riverkeeper will continue this fight to ensure that the City protects the Creek and its ecosystem, and does not interfere with the public’s use and enjoyment of it.

Water Transfers Rule: In 2008, the U.S. EPA finalized a regu - lation that exempts transfers of polluted water from Clean Water Act permit requirements. As we have seen in the Esopus Creek, such “water transfers” can be extremely damaging when the transferred water is of lesser quality than receiving waters, e.g., when sediment-laden water is sent into clear drinking water reservoirs.

Riverkeeper and its partners, represented by the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, have sued the EPA in the U.S. 6th Street Iron and Metal: District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals to challenge the Following Riverkeeper’s 2009 Water Transfers Rule as arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of Notice of Intent to Sue the DEC discretion in violation of the plain requirements of the Clean fined 6th Street $33,000 for dump - Water Act. These rule challenges are currently pending. ing scrap metal into the canal and operating an unlicensed waste-oil tank on site.

MCIZ Bus Corp: Following Riverkeeper’s 2009 Notice of Intent to Sue the DEC fined MCIZ $482,750 for numerous environmental violations dating back to 2006.

14 Albany CSO Long Term Control Plan: Waterways in the capital district are heavily impacted by sewage over - flows during rain and other sources. Champlain Hudson Power Express: Riverkeeper will be submitting com - CHPE is proposing to construct an ments on the draft plan to reduce electric cable from Canada to NYC sewage contamination in the capital running through the bottom of Lake district when that plan is released to Champlain and the Hudson River. the public this June. Riverkeeper is an intervenor in the permit hearing in front of the Department of Public Service and is currently opposing the sections of the cable that are proposed to be installed in the Hudson River through areas of sensitive habitat and contamination.

General Motors Site Redevelopment: This 96 acre riverfront site is contaminated from its industrial past but no one knows how badly. Riverkeeper submitted comments in public hearings on the need for a more complete assessment and remediation of hazardous materials on the site and in adjacent waterways Sparkill Watershed Alliance: A before development moves forward. citizen group has formed to clean up and protect the Sparkill Creek Watershed in Rockland and Bergen Counties. Riverkeeper is facilitating a water quality mini-study on the Sparkill in support of this effort.

Quality Concrete: Quality Concrete pleaded guilty to a class “A” misdemeanor violation of the environmental conservation law and paid a $95,000 financial penalty for criminal pollution of Newtown Creek. This case was initially inves - tigated by Riverkeeper in 2002.

15 RIVERKEEPER ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: BRINGING ENVIRONMENTAL LAWBREAKERS TO JUSTICE By Josh Verleun

ince our founding in the 1960s a core years of dumping pollution and debris into two municipalities for allowing raw sewage Spart of Riverkeeper’s mission has been the Gowanus Canal, and illegally storing to flow into their waterways, investigating to act as a watchdog for the Hudson River, petroleum. Also on the Gowanus, 6th reports of leachate outbreaks at landfills in enforcing the law and bringing environ - Street Iron and Metal was fined approxi - three communities, uncovering a massive mental lawbreakers to justice when gov - mately $33,000 by the DEC for dumping sewage release in Tarrytown, and continu - ernment agencies don’t have the desire or into the Canal and having an unlicensed ing efforts to stop ongoing dumping of resources to do so. Riverkeeper carries out waste-oil container on site. Both fines were tires in the Harlem River. This year our mission to protect the Hudson with the result of Notices of Intent to Sue filed Riverkeeper continued our partnership regular boat patrols, the help of concerned by Riverkeeper in 2009 as part of our with the New York State Department of citizen “watchdogs,” and by partnering Gowanus Canal Enforcement Campaign. Environmental Conservation’s Law Enforc- with law enforcement agencies. Whether This year also saw Quality Concrete plead ement Division, working with officers and it’s an anonymous tip to Riverkeeper’s guilty to a class “A” misdemeanor viola - legal staff to investigate and refer cases; Chief Investigator Josh Verleun through tion of the environmental conservation law hosted boat patrols with representatives of the “report a polluter” hotline or a con - following years of legal wrangling and the US Attorney’s office, Environmental cerned citizen flagging down our patrol appeals over pollution at their Newtown Protection Agency, EPA Criminal Investiga- boat operator John Lipscomb from the Creek cement plant. This criminal case, tors, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s shore, Riverkeeper relies on our members brought by the Brooklyn District Attorney, Office; and testified at a hearing in front of and concerned New Yorkers to be our eyes led to a $95,000 financial penalty, and the the New York City Council to increase on the River. installation of an onsite wastewater penalties for dumping in NYC waters. This year Riverkeeper saw enforcement treatment system. These victories are in Riverkeeper also continues to work with victories in Brooklyn on the Gowanus addition to the landmark ExxonMobil the Westchester County Police Department Canal and Newtown Creek. Riverkeeper settlement over their Greenpoint Oil spill Environmental Security Unit, the Environ- scored a victory when MCIZ Bus (see cover story, page 22). mental Crimes Unit of the Brooklyn District Corporation and related companies were This year, Riverkeeper also investigated Attorney’s Office, and the NYC Small fined $482,750 by the Department of dozens of additional tips and citizen Business Services Dockmaster Unit. I Environmental Conservation (DEC) for watchdog reports, taking action against

Gowanus Canal Superfund Update Champlain Hudson Power Express Project B

M he Gowanus Canal, located in Brooklyn, NY f constructed the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) cable O C S P I is one of the most heavily contaminated water project, which has been proposed to bring electricity from Canada L T I N H

O bodies in the nation. This 1.8 mile long, 100 foot to New York City, would be one of the longest underwater cables J wide, canal was built in the 19th century and his - in the world. Running over 300 miles through Lake Champlain and torically was home to many industries including the Hudson River to Astoria, Queens the project proposes to bring manufactured gas plants, cement factories, oil wind and hydro power to the congested New York City power grid. refineries, tanneries, and chemical plants. In To build the cable CHPE must get a permit from the Department of March 2010 the Environmental Protection Energy, the NYS Department of Public Service, the Army Corps, Agency (EPA) added the Gowanus to the Federal Superfund pro - and the Department of State. Although Riverkeeper supports gram to begin the process of cleaning this long-suffering waterway. “renewable” energy projects the CHPE project would run through In February 2011 the EPA released the results of the year long sensitive fish habitat, and has the potential to mobilize PCBs and Remedial Investigation (RI). This thorough assessment of the other contaminants during installation. Riverkeeper is actively Canal’s contamination will be followed by a feasibility study to working to shape the scope of the project and is fighting to have determine how best to clean the canal. The RI confirmed what the cable buried on-land along the railroad corridor and kept out of many suspected, that the Canal is heavily contaminated with a sensitive Hudson River habitat. For the latest on this developing wide range of dangerous toxins. Riverkeeper is an active member case, visit http://bit.ly/gEXOeF. I of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) and is working with members of the community to ensure that a proper cleanup plan for the Canal is crafted and implemented. I 16 THE PROMISE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Can it Save Us from the Scourge of Stormwater Pollution? By Phillip Musegaas

he past year was an exciting time for (DEP) released its Green Infrastructure make sure that the DEP’s priority through - Tadvocates of “Green Infrastructure,” a Plan, which lays out the city’s new vision out this process is to meet state and federal new approach to reducing stormwater pol - for addressing the ongoing scourge of water quality standards in all the city’s lution that has tremendous potential for untreated sewage discharges into its water - waterways, and in the near future attaining New York City, Albany and other cities on ways. The plan will replace the existing the Clean Water Act’s goal of a “fishable, the Hudson River which have antiquated approach for sewer overflow control, swimmable” Hudson River Estuary. “combined sewer systems” that discharge which relies solely on traditional invest - Since 2007, Riverkeeper has played a untreated sewage into the Hudson River ments like holding tanks and tunnels, with lead role in advocating for the increased and New York Harbor virtually every time a mix of green infrastructure and cost- use of GI, through the work of the Storm it rains heavily. These combined sewer effective traditional infrastructure that is Water Infrastructure Matters (SWIM) overflows are perhaps the most persistent projected to reduce sewer overflows into Coalition, the release of our Sustainable and widespread source of water pollution waterways by 40 percent citywide by Raindrops report and our federally funded in the Hudson and East Rivers and New 2030. While Riverkeeper supports the city effort to design and build a pilot GI proj - York Harbor, severely affecting the marine for finally embracing a more sustainable ect on a public playground in Brooklyn. ecosystem and impairing the use of these approach to addressing stormwater pollu - Through our founding and participation in waters for swimming and kayaking. tion, the plan lacks detail and a clear road the SWIM coalition, a diverse coalition of The term “Green Infrastructure” (GI) map for implementing GI throughout the environmental groups, GI practitioners and refers to technology and landscape design city’s thirteen “sewersheds.” Our goal is to community groups advocating for maxi - that focuses on retaining and absorbing mizing the use of GI in New York City, stormwater before it enters the storm sew - Riverkeeper has been instrumental in ers in the first place, thereby reducing the ensuring that New York City integrate GI strain on the sewer system and reducing the into its long term plans to reduce sewage frequency and severity of contaminated pollution by 2030. Riverkeeper recently overflows. Examples of GI are diverse and accepted an invitation from the DEP to range from green roofs, street trees and join a citizens’ “steering committee” estab - “pocket parks” to permeable pavement in lished to monitor and provide input to the parking lots and rain barrels attached to implementation of the city’s Green rain gutter downspouts. In addition to Infrastructure Plan. reducing stormwater flows, GI has the In order to realize the full potential of added benefit of “greening” the city. Street GI, city planners and the DEP will have to trees, green roofs and pocket parks absorb make a genuine effort to involve the public heat much better than impermeable paved as much as possible in finalizing and carry - surfaces, actually cooling the city in the ing out the plan. While water quality process. This also leads to reduced energy around the city has improved substantially consumption during the height of summer, in the last thirty years, the continuing leading to reduced air pollution from dirty scourge of CSO pollution threatens to “peaking” power plants. The ideology derail that progress. The ultimate success behind GI is simple: By treating stormwater of the GI Plan will depend on the city as a resource rather than a waste, we can actively engaging the public, and coalitions reduce water pollution and ‘green’ urban with unique expertise like SWIM to build areas, thereby improving the health of the a citywide constituency that supports marine ecosystem that surrounds New investments in Green and Grey infrastruc - York City and dramatically improving the ture. If this can be done, then we have quality of life for millions of New Yorkers. truly turned the corner toward a greater, M O C

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r Dynamics of a Polluted basin, where the clay particles Public Reaction Waterway e can eventually settle out of the Local residents who live on the

t In the Catskill Watershed of water, and an east basin, where banks of the Esopus and/or use New York City’s drinking clean water from the west the creek for fishing and boat -

a water supply, the Schoharie basin can be transferred and ing were rightfully outraged by Reservoir drains through the sent through the aqueduct to the muddy appearance of the

w 18-mile-long Shandaken deliver drinking water to nine creek and the loss of its use for Tunnel and empties into the million consumers. recreational activities. Thousands Upper Esopus Creek at Allaben Following two major rain - of trout stocked in the creek by in Ulster County. From there storms last fall, the New York sport fishermen are presumed the Schoharie water, mixed City Department of Environ- dead as the cloudy water The Watershed with Esopus Creek water, flows mental Protection (DEP) calcu - impairs their ability to seek Program uses public education, advocacy 12 miles downstream and lated that the water level in the food and wears away their gills. and litigation in order empties into the Ashokan Ashokan’s west basin would Winter ice fishing for perch and to protect the unfil - Reservoir. Historically, this need to be drawn down to other game fish is absent on the tered drinking water supply for 9 million section of the Esopus has been accommodate the increased flow creek this season for the same New Yorkers. known as a blue-ribbon trout from upcoming spring rains and reason. Irrigation pumps on stream among fishermen snowmelt if operators were to agricultural lands in the flood - worldwide. However, because avoid spilling turbid water into plains west of Kingston are at the geology of the Catskills has the cleaner east basin. To create risk of clogging with sediment numerous clay deposits, the a void in the west basin, the during operation. Rafters, water entering the Ashokan DEP activated a “waste chan - kayakers, business owners and Reservoir from the Upper nel” to discharge turbid water residents whose children swim Esopus is sometimes cloudy into the Lower Esopus Creek, in the creek during summer and shaded reddish-brown thereby bypassing the east basin. were alarmed by the eyesore

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P Reservoir is divided into a west River in Saugerties. 18 Intervention flush all the suspended sedi - FIXING THE LEAKS IN THE DELAWARE AQUEDUCT In response to concerns local ment from the creek. Then, residents loudly voiced to the beginning in the spring of this Riverkeeper Helps DEP, Ulster County, Riverkeeper year, the DEP would begin and other environmental making periodic clear water Communities Take Action groups, the DEP agreed to con - releases to the Lower Esopus. By Craig Michaels vene meetings of stakeholders Despite the DEP’s modifica - and City officials in December tion of Ashokan release opera - Since 2001, Riverkeeper has been the primary watchdog over the and January to form the tions, the DEC nevertheless leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct, which supplies more than half of Ashokan Release Working announced that it intended to NewYork City’s daily drinking water. Over the past two years, Group, whose purpose is to bring an enforcement action we’ve taken an active role within local communities to help those develop recommendations for a against DEP for violating state affected by the leaks to take action. clear water release strategy to water quality standards, which This past November, the NewYork City Department of be applied to Ashokan require that suspended sedi - Environmental Protection (DEP) announced its plans to divert Reservoir operations. Also dur - ment not be discharged in water from the leaking aqueduct. Specifically, the City’s plan, ing this period, Ulster County amounts that cause a substan - designed to circumvent the worst of two leaks, is to build a three- Executive Mike Hein, respond - tial visible contrast to natural mile bypass tunnel around a portion of the aqueduct that is leak - ing to numerous citizen com - conditions (see photo). Acting ing in Roseton in Orange County, and repair other leaks in plaints, filed a notice of intent in good faith, the DEP agreed Wawarsing, in Ulster County, from the inside of the existing tun - to sue the DEP under the Clean to conduct a biological assess - nel.The construction of the bypass tunnel and the repair of the lin - Water Act for continuing dis - ment of the Lower Esopus to ing will ensure that DEP can continue to deliver high quality charges of turbid water into study the impacts of turbid drinking water every day for decades to come. the Lower Esopus. releases on fish and other Under the plan, which will cost $1.2 billion, DEP will break On January 28, Riverkeeper aquatic organisms, to take cor - ground on the bypass tunnel in 2013, and complete the connection and other members of the rective action to remediate any to the Delaware Aqueduct in 2019.The leaking portion of the aque - working group toured several environmental impacts caused duct would then be sealed and its use discontinued. sites along the Lower Esopus by the sustained turbid releases Although the DEP’s plan represents a big investment in solving from the mouth of the creek in and, at Riverkeeper’s urging, a big problem, the City should also move to compensate home - Saugerties upstream to agreed to consider compensat - owners affected by the leaks for damages suffered.There have Kingston, where we observed ing local residents for damages been serious consequences to people living in areas near the leak. clay-colored water in the open to agriculture and recreation In Roseton, the leaking aqueduct has created sinkholes on private areas between tracts of snow- arising from the releases. lots and adjacent to the Danskammer power plant. In Wawarsing covered ice. Later on the same As a member of the the aqueduct leak has caused the flooding of homes and contami - day, County Executive Hein Ashokan Release Working nated local drinking water wells from flooded septic fields.The hosted a meeting in Kingston Group, Riverkeeper will con - problem is so bad that DEP agreed to provide bottled water to res - with the DEP, the New York tinue to meet with the DEP idents, gave them sump pumps for their basements, and installed State Department of Environ- and stakeholders in the coming ultra-violet disinfection systems for their well water. mental Conservation (DEC), weeks to participate in the “It’s time for action for the people of this community,” said the Watershed Inspector General, development of the scope of Laura Smith, a long-time resident of Wawarsing. “I’m grateful for New York State Senator John J. issues DEP will address in its all that Riverkeeper has done here over the years and have a lot of Bonacic, a representative from biological assessment of the faith in what they stand for. What’s needed now is a real solution, U.S. Congressman Maurice Lower Esopus. While public a plan in place by the DEP to compensate the homeowners, to Hinchey’s office, and River- involvement, environmental help us move so we can have a life again.” keeper. At that meeting, DEP advocacy and the responsive - The residents of Wawarsing, together with DEP and other state Commissioner Cas Holloway ness of local decisionmakers and local officials, have formed the local Project Advisory announced that DEP had calcu - were the driving forces that Committee (PAC) to update community members on DEP’s leak lated that the Ashokan’s west averted a potential long-term investigation and to provide a forum to discuss ongoing issues basin had been drawn down ecological disaster, we are with the leaks. Riverkeeper is a member of the PAC and attends sufficiently to cease turbid encouraged to see that the scheduled meetings. We will continue to monitor and report on releases into the Lower Esopus New York City DEP has this issue and work with residents in affected communities to via the waste channel and for joined the fight to restore this ensure their voices are heard and until the consequences they are three consecutive days the DEP storied waterway. I suffering are made right. I would release clear water from the Ashokan’s east basin to 19 s w e n d e h s r e t a w

DON’T FRACK WITH NY WATER! A Virtual Community Comes to Life ByTina Posterli

GWENDOLYN CHAMBERS

n 2008, the issue of hydraulic fracturing survive and bringing income into their Don’t Frack com - I(hydrofracking or fracking) for natural state, not signing away their right to clean munity were instru - gas in the Marcellus Shale came to the water. mental in the New forefront in New York State. Ever since, In the summer of 2010, Riverkeeper and York State Senate and Riverkeeper has been playing a major role partner organizations Catskill Assembly passing a bill that places a in protecting our drinking water supply Mountainkeeper and the Natural moratorium on fracking until May 15, from hasty and dangerous fracking prac - Resources Defense Council along with 2011, a bill that had been “DOA” until tices by issuing a series of reports docu - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and screen actor and thousands of supporters rallied, wrote and menting fracking incidents across the fracktivist Mark Ruffalo, visited Dimock called their legislators. In September, country and providing comments to the to see firsthand the dangers of fracking N

New York State Department of gone wrong. Shortly afterward, through O S P M I

Environmental Conservation (DEC) on its the generous donation of Riverkeeper S Y A draft environmental impact statement Board of Directors member David Kowitz, J (EIS), the worst Riverkeeper has ever seen. we worked with Fenton Communications In 2010, filmmaker Josh Fox brought the to launch the Don’t Frack With NY Water! issue of fracking into national focus with campaign, which has grown into a commu - his Oscar-nominated documentary, nity of almost 7,000 strong. Don’t Frack Gasland. The film highlighted the town of With NY Water! was launched as a virtual Dimock, Pennsylvania, a community that campaign supported by grassroots outreach was rushed into signing fracking permits and has been a powerful tool in creating by the gas and oil industry before proper awareness about fracking issues and mobi - regulations were in place. During a failing lizing people concerned about the quality

economy, people in this community of their water to take action. Over the Dimock resident Craig Sautner displays water from his thought they were helping their families to summer and fall of 2010, the actions of the contaminated drinking well.

20 M O C Riverkeeper and the Don’t Frack With NY . D R O F

Water! community were present at the EPA H S A S E L

Hydraulic Fracturing Study hearings in I G Binghamton, New York. Riverkeeper also released a report at the hearing, titled Fractured Communities, which highlights over 100 case studies where federal and state regulators identified gas drilling oper - ations, including those that utilize hydraulic fracturing, as the known or sus - pected cause of groundwater, drinking Riverkeeper and coalition members visit the site of gas drilling in Dimock, PA. water, and surface water contamination. In M

December, 2010, Governor David Paterson helped me to feel empowered instead of O C . D issued an Executive Order calling for a feeling afraid or intimidated about this R O F H S temporary timeout on permitting the use issue. I’m grateful that they have put A S E L I of horizontal wells for fracking for natural everything together in such a succinct way, G gas through July 1, 2011. However, the and have made it so easy for us to take Executive Order creates a loophole that oil action and make a difference.” and gas corporations can exploit to allow Laura Dobbins is another Don’t Frack another form [vertical wells] to be permit - community member making a difference. ted immediately. She’s been working with Riverkeeper to use Don’t Frack With NY Water! communi - public screenings of Gasland as a tool to ty member Emily Ascher Rann is the educate people about fracking and has mother of a young son and has been brought many new supporters to the Don’t involved with the campaign, doing grass - Frack With NY Water! community. Gas drilling in Dimock, PA roots outreach by handing out materials According to Laura, “Sometimes people and educating others about the fracking just need gentle reminders that lead to the City, Philadelphia, the National Park issue in New York City’s Union Square. ‘aha moment’ that we’re all in this togeth - Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “As New Yorkers, we are fortunate er. For example, that what happened in many elected officials, and thousands of cit - enough to have some of the best unfiltered Dimock and other communities across the izens, and in March, New York Times drinking water in the world,” said Emily. country can happen here if we don’t do writer Ian Urbina released an epic gas “It’s horrifying to think fracking and the something about it now. Once people real - drilling wastewater series documenting an chemicals it releases can happen so close to ize that the water they depend on is at extensive and disturbing amount of infor - our precious water supply. Through the stake, amazing things start to happen. They mation gathered from EPA, state regulators Don’t Frack community, Riverkeeper has realize they have the power to stop it.” and gas drilling companies that has not Natural gas development been previously made available, either to M O C . has been progressing across the public or to other government regula - D R O F the vast Marcellus Shale at tors and decision-makers. The information H S A S E

L a pace and scale that no Urbina brought to light definitively estab - I G one ever envisioned, and lishes that the danger to public health and there is still a long way to the environment from hydraulic fracturing go on the fracking front in is much greater than previously understood. New York to ensure that The work that the Don’t Frack With NY our most precious natural Water! community members and other resource is not at risk. fracktivists across the state are doing is In February 2011, The helping to shape the way for the regulation Delaware River Basin of fracking practices and standards across Commission (DRBC), the country. We are all taking a stand to issued drilling and fracking say, “not here, not now.” Because once rules against the will of our water supplies are fracked with, there I Left to right: Mike Richter, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a resident of New York State, New York is no going back. Dimock, PA. Get involved! Join our Don’t Frack With NY Water! community: www.facebook.com/dontfrackwithny 21 B C y O P h V i l V l i E p R M C i u s e S T g c a T a O A O s a R n t d K Y T i M n a I o P N o s t e r r M l G i y B U A N C i K n I T O U I G E R r S W e A R T e E I n S R p W I N o A Y i G n S : t

GILESASHFORD .COM M O C . D R O F H S A S E L I G November 10, 2010, marked a significant moment in River- keeper’s history when we joined with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to announce a landmark settlement against ExxonMobil that holds the company responsible for clean - ing up between 17 million and 30 million gallons of oil that were spilled and leaked from its refinery and storage facili - ties into the soil and ground - water in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, over the last century. These petroleum discharges formed underground petrole - um plumes of more than 50 acres that underlie local busi - nesses and a residential section of Greenpoint. The contamina - tion has also been leaching into Newtown Creek for decades, making Greenpoint home to the largest under - ground oil spill in any North Paul Gallay at ExxonMobil settlement press conference in American city. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The settlement requires Exxon to investigate and clean up the contaminated ground - conduct environmental restora - water and soil affected by the tion and create open space in spill and to address releases of Greenpoint. ExxonMobil is soil vapors into the air and also required to pay natural vapor intrusion from the con - resource damages to the State These petroleum discharges formed tamination into Greenpoint’s of New York, to reimburse the underground petroleum plumes of homes and businesses. As part State for its investigation and more than 50 acres that underlie local of the agreement, Exxon estab - oversight costs, and to reim - lished a $19.5 million burse Riverkeeper for its legal businesses and a residential section of “Environmental Benefit fees and litigation expenses. Greenpoint. The contamination has Project” fund which will be This was a hard fought used to finance community victory for Riverkeeper and also been leaching into Newtown Creek actions to reduce pollution, (continued on page 24) for decades, making Greenpoint home to the largest underground oil spill in any North American city.

23 M O C . D R O F H S A S E L I G

the federal court in Brooklyn, and the parties were actively engaged in efforts to settle the cases for almost three years. Riverkeeper was represented since the lawsuit’s inception by dedicated law students, super - vised by law professors, at Pace Law School’s Environ- mental Litigation Clinic in Left to right: Martin Malave Dilan, Joseph Lentol, Andrew Cuomo, Paul Gallay, Marty Markowitz White Plains, New York.

residents of Greenpoint, who littering the creek. After inves - A Community Takes Action worked tirelessly to represent tigating the source of the oil The Newtown Creek Alliance Newtown Creek and its neigh - and the industrial history of was formed in 2002 in borhoods and businesses for the creek, Riverkeeper filed a response to the devastating This agreement eight years. This agreement federal lawsuit against effects the creek has had on the will help to heal a will help to heal a community ExxonMobil in 2004 to hold it health and vitality of the that’s been suffering from the responsible for its role in the Greenpoint community and is community that’s toxic effects of this oil spill for contamination. Riverkeeper dedicated to improving the been suffering from nearly a century and is a shin - was joined by Greenpoint resi - waterway and its adjoining the toxic effects of ing example of people rising dents Laura and Mike neighborhoods. Riverkeeper up to reclaim their forgot - Hofmann, Teresa Toro, Rolf helped found the organization, this oil spill for ten/neglected waterway. Carle, Bill Schuck and which is comprised of local nearly a century Deborah Masters as co-plain - residents, business owners, and is a shining A Toxic Legacy tiffs in its lawsuit. New York elected officials and other non- Riverkeeper uncovered the Attorney General Cuomo sub - profit groups. With the com - example of people Greenpoint oil spill during a sequently filed a federal law - pletion of another creekside rising up to reclaim boat patrol of Newtown Creek suit alleging similar claims, as open space at the end of the in 2002, when it found the well as other claims over Manhattan Avenue, a commu - their forgotten/ first evidence of seeping oil which the State has unique nity-based Brownfields plan - neglected waterway. from the Exxon refinery site, enforcement authority. The ning grant from New York finding oil sheens, floating lawsuits were consolidated for State, and recent investments in garbage and abandoned cars case management purposes by green infrastructure and

24 With the completion of another creekside open space at the end of the Manhattan Avenue, a community-based Brownfields planning grant from New York State, and recent investments in stormwater management, the green infrastructure and stormwater management, the Newtown Creek Alliance con - Newtown Creek Alliance continues to support local businesses, tinues to support local busi - job generation, community health, and a cleaner creek. nesses, job generation, community health, and a cleaner creek. Kate Schmid is Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance S and has been involved with L E A H C Riverkeeper since 2002 when I M G I she was working as policy A R analyst on the New York City C Council Committee on Water- fronts. Although she is not a Greenpoint resident, she became an advocate for Newtown Creek during patrols with Riverkeeper and ultimately helped establish the Newtown Creek Alliance. “We were amazed at the environmental catastrophes we saw on patrols of the creek,” said Kate. “We partnered to bring a communi - ty into a room and ultimately into a conversation about what was happening on and along their creek and found out that we had a group of people dedicated to bettering their environment. Riverkeeper has provided the science, litigation support and political access to the Newtown Creek Alliance, and I brought my experience in community organization to the table. Since that first meeting, we’ve grown into a strong, vital organization and have been able to accomplish amaz - ing things.” (continued on page 26)

25 Newtown Creek Receives Superfund Status N A R

O In another major victory for Newtown Creek, on B E H S I September 27, 2010, EPA announced its decision to list H S A R

A it on the Superfund National Priorities List. Over a cen - H S tury of industrial pollution and raw sewage overflows have rendered the creek one of the most highly polluted waterways in the United States. Under Superfund, the EPA will bring its considerable legal and technical resources to bear to completely address the legacy of contamination that has nearly obliterated the creek’s natural systems and posed a public health risk to nearby residents. Industry along Newtown Creek Riverkeeper has been a vocal advocate for a Superfund Christine Holowacz is a that can take five years or cleanup for Newtown Creek since the EPA announced long-time resident of longer,” said Christine. that it was considering the Canal for the federal Greenpoint who emigrated to “Because of this, a lot of peo - Superfund program in December, 2009. Riverkeeper has the community from Poland at ple never felt like their voice also established itself as the leading pollution enforcer the age of 17. She has worked counted, so the things happen - on the creek, exemplified by its citizen suits against oil as a community advocate for ing in the community including companies, cement manufacturers and other polluters. more than 30 years and is the the pollution in the creek, Community Liasion for the never felt like something they Newtown Creek Monitoring could do anything about. I hadn’t started patrolling the to monitor the progress of the Committee. She has friends wanted my children to have a creek, we wouldn’t have the cleanup and also the distribu - now in their 60s who speak of better environment here than I environmental benefit program tion of the $19.5 million for days when they would swim in did. I always felt there was no we have today, people would - community benefit projects. Newtown Creek. Christine has need for it to be this way, that n’t have been made aware of This story exemplifies the never witnessed that, but she industry and residential areas the oil spill, and we wouldn’t power people have to make a said she knows there was a can co-exist.” Christine be working with government difference. Even though it was time when the creek was beau - became an advocate for her and ExxonMobil to clean up a long, hard road, we worked tiful, “before the companies community, actively fighting this mess.” together with a community of started to dump toxicity into against the Greenpoint people determined to turn one it.” During her teen years, she Incinerator, which was demol - What Lies Ahead of the most polluted waterways remembers the creek as being ished in 1994. Right at that While this ends a chapter in in the nation into the promis - something people would either time, Riverkeeper was becom - the Exxon case, it is not the ing resource it can become for ignore or have a morbid ing a regular presence in the end of the story. Next steps are future generations. I curiosity about, peeking in to community through the boat to help local citizens organize see what was floating in it. patrols of Newtown Creek. There was no way for people Christine feels the timing was to access the creek when she right for her to meet “If Riverkeeper hadn’t started patrolling the was younger and it kept get - Riverkeeper Patrol Boat creek, we wouldn’t have the environmental ting dirtier and dirtier. Operator John Lipscomb and benefit program we have today, people wouldn’t “Greenpoint has always had a Chief Investigator at the time large population of immigrants Basil Seggos, which led to her have been made aware of the oil spill, and we who don’t get to vote until involvement in the Greenpoint wouldn’t be working with government and they get citizenship status and oil spill issue. “If Riverkeeper ExxonMobil to clean up this mess.”

CHRISTINE HOLOWACZ, GREENPOINT RESIDENT

26 WHY A CLEAN NEWTOWN CREEK MATTERS! By Tina Posterli N U E

L have lived there for generations and all of their R E V

H lives. NSWC has requested fish advisory signs, S O J knowing that it won’t stop residents from crab - bing and fishing in these waters, but at least they will have information to be able to make an informed decision. New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the EPA will be putting up fish advisory signs on New York City properties that have waterfront access points to the north shore, but according to Thurman, “Everyone is moving too slowly, and I’m afraid they won’t be in time to prevent all of these toxins from harming people. We need pub - lic service announcements on TV and the radio that make people aware that the Kill Van Kull and Arthur Kill are in violation of the Clean Water Act—that there are real issues in these concerns and that these waterways have the same contam - inants as Newark Bay and Lower Hudson River.” B M

Ever since he started patrolling Newtown Creek in O While multilingual signage that properly C S P I 2002, Riverkeeper patrol boat captain John L informs people about the risks of eating contami - N H O Lipscomb has seen people cast their rods into the J nated seafood is essential, there is a larger issue creek and pull out fish and crabs with the inten - at hand. It’s not where a fish is caught, but rather tion of eating them. In a melting pot like New what it’s eaten all of its life that leads to toxic York City, where many immigrant newcomers are contamination. A fish in Newtown Creek will feed accustomed to subsistence fishing safely in their English, and there is a substantial Hispanic there, and then migrate back out into the East home waters, there is nothing out of the ordinary population living in the area who cannot read it. River and vice versa. “What really needs to hap - with this picture. In fact, it’s completely natural This is a scenario that occurs along every pen is that we need to clean these toxic waters and reasonable for people to want to use our waterway of New York City with people fishing and their sediments and stop dumping pollution waterways for the purposes for which they were and crabbing in the Gowanus Canal, the East into them until fish are safe to eat,” said intended. This is especially the case when most of River, the lower Hudson, the Harlem River and all Lipscomb. “Hunger is as powerful a driver as the people fishing and crabbing in waterways like points in between. Beryl Thurman, Executive nicotine addiction. Just like the warning label on Newtown Creek are relying on what they catch to Director/President of the North Shore Waterfront a cigarette pack, putting up signs might deter feed their families because they don’t have Conservancy of Staten Island, Inc. (NSWC), is some people from fishing and crabbing in toxic enough money for groceries. However, these peo - experiencing a similar situation in the Kill Van waters, but it won’t stop most of them. Until the ple are crabbing and fishing without having Kull and Arthur Kill. Both of these waterways are water is clean, people will continue to pay the access to a crucial fact, that what they are catch - in violation of the U.S. Environmental Protection price for the violations of big industry who found ing is contaminated with toxins that have been Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Act and residents an easy way out by dumping their toxic sludge pouring into the creek and other parts of the are crabbing and fishing from these polluted into our waters for decades.” Hudson for decades. At Newtown creek, there is waters and feeding their families and themselves Riverkeeper believes that every citizen one sign placed at the main public access area at with this poisonous seafood. In Staten Island, the deserves not only a clean river, but also a way to Manhattan Avenue Park stating that the water - problem is more wide spread. It’s not only the experience and enjoy it. With your help, we are way is unsafe for swimming and fishing. The immigrant population who are subsistence fish - working toward the day when people can fish and problem is that this sign is only printed in ing and crabbing, it’s also people whose families recreate in our waterways without worry. I

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Riverkeeper honored love?” – the Governor respond - M © California Governor Arnold ed appropriately, “water.” Schwarzenegger and HBO for Comedian Andy Borowitz contributions to environmental was also on hand to entertain policy and public awareness at guests before dinner. our Fishermen’s Ball gala on Riverkeeper is grateful to April 14, 2010 at Chelsea Piers HBO for providing guests with on the Hudson River in New copies of the Academy Award TM York City. nominated documentary feature Riverkeeper Vice Chair “Gasland,” directed by Josh

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. present - Fox. The film explores some of From left to right: James Lipton, Joan Hornig, George Hornig, Kedakai Turner, ed an award to Governor the environmental impacts of Christie Brinkley and Paul Gallay at the Hornig home in Water Mill. Schwarzenegger for his leader - hydraulic fracturing, or hydro- ship on climate change policy. fracking, a form of extracting Acclaimed director Spike Lee natural gas from beneath the EcoSalon presented the honors to Sheila earth’s surface as an energy sup - A L

Nevins, President of HBO ply. Riverkeeper is working to Riverkeeper thanks board member L E S A

Documentary Films, for creat - ensure that hydrofracking does George Hornig and his wife Joan, and R A C W ing thought-provoking pro - not occur in New York State supporter Seema Boesky, for graciously E H T T gramming that focuses until proper regulations and hosting our EcoSalon events in the A M attention on complex issues enforcement mechanisms are in Hamptons and in Westchester in 2010. © facing the world. More than place to protect public health In August, Joan and George, with 600 supporters of Riverkeeper and the environment, including event co-host Christie Brinkley, wel - attended the event. the drinking water supplies of comed Riverkeeper supporters to the In the evening’s highlight, nine million New York City and Hornig home in Water Mill for cock - James Lipton, producer and Hudson Valley residents. tails and dinner and to engage in an host of the cable television pro - The Fishermen’s Ball raised intimate, salon-style discussion with gram “Inside the Actors more than $1.2 million for Dr. Carl Safina, President of Blue Studio,” conducted one of his Riverkeeper’s work to protect Ocean Institute and a distinguished Dr. Carl Safina, President of Blue iconic interviews on stage, with the Hudson River and the voice for protecting the world’s Ocean Institute, presenting at a Governor Schwarzenegger as a drinking water supplies upon oceans. Riverkeeper Executive Director Riverkeeper EcoSalon. voluble and entertaining sub - which millions of New Yorkers Paul Gallay introduced Dr. Safina, ject. In response to one of rely. Riverkeeper is grateful to who shared insights regarding the fate of our marine ecosystems Lipton’s trademark questions – our Board of Directors and all and the importance of the work of Riverkeeper in protecting fish “What sound or noise do you those who supported the event. populations. Dr. Safina also provided timely observations on the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico region, to which he had made A L L E

S James Lipton and recent site visits. A R

A Arnold Schwarzenegger C In November, Seema Boesky hosted an evening at her Mount W E H

T Kisco home for Riverkeeper supporters with Vice Chair Robert F. T A M Kennedy, Jr., Executive Director Paul Gallay and Riverkeeper sen - © ior program staff. The group discussed Riverkeeper’s origins as a grassroots organization dedicated to protecting our region’s pre - cious water resources; and how community support and activism are critical to our success in fighting pollution and advocating for policies that better protect the Hudson and our drinking water supplies. The EcoSalon events bring thought leaders in the fields of envi - ronmentalism, politics, science, the arts and entertainment together with our supporters to share perspectives on many of the most challenging ecological issues of our time. In 2010, these events raised more than $80,000 in support of Riverkeeper’s work. 29 With Gratitude and Appreciation Riverkeeper gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of our private corporate and public supporters and members, who number more than 5,000 a year. Space limitations and eco-wise production standards allow us to present donors of $500 and greater in this pres- entation. This listing reflects contributions received between July 1st, 2009 and June 30th, 2010. We are grateful to all our members. For a full listing, please visit Riverkeeper.org.

GIFTS OF $100,000.00 Mr. David Corkery Mrs. Mary Calder Rower Ms. Linda Rothenberg Gelfond AND GREATER Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation Mr. Olivier Cassegrain Mr. John N. Gilbert and Mr. and Mrs. David Kowitz Mr. Roger Davidson Charles Spear Charitable Trust Mrs. Gillett A. Gilbert Moore Charitable Foundation DBA LLC Mr. and Mrs. Chevy Chase J.M. Kaplan Fund Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tudor Jones Mr. Glenn R. Dubin and Dr. Eva Mr. Yvon Chouinard Ms. Sarah Kreitman Andersson-Dubin Ms. Bridget L. Cooke Lilly Pulitzer Mr. Douglas Durst Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dalton Mr. Robert Mancini GIFTS OF $50,000.00 Hearst Corporation Eileen Fisher, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mandel AND GREATER Mr. and Mrs. George Hornig Mr. Harrison Ford Mr. and Mrs. Peter Matthiessen 1199 SEIU New York’s Health & Human The Hyde and Watson Foundation Ms. Katie Ford Mr. Terence S. Meehan and Service Union Mr. Jay Eisenhofer and Ms. Chandra Jessee Mrs. Emily Souvaine Meehan AIG, Inc. Ms. Anne Jameson The Gage Fund Mrs. Nicole Miller The Charitable Lead Annuity Under Mr. and Mrs. Drew J. Guff Mr. Bruce D. Grivetti Moore Capital Management LLC the Will of Louis Feil HBO Mr. and Mrs. H. Peter Haveles Mr. and Mrs. Alvaro Noboa Mr. Chris Saul Davis and The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation KPMG Mr. and Mrs. David Preiser Mrs. Sharon Davis Indus Capital Partners, LLC Hudson River Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael Richter Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Donald Jessome Mr. Joseph Kahn and Ms. Shannon Wu Kiehls Mr. Justin Derfner Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kingdon Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Kasowitz Ms. Susan Sarandon Mr. John Hess Mr. and Mrs. John Klopp Mr. Orin S. Kramer Mr. Michael Jeffrey Shannon John McEnroe Foundation The Walbridge Fund Mr. and Mrs. Dale Kutnick The Silberstein-Boesky Family New York Community Trust The Louise G. Harper Charitable Lead Ms. Danielle Levy Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rubin Annuity Trust Macy’s, Inc. Ms. Connie Steensma and Ms. Jo-Anne Weissbart Mr. Gary K. Lippman Mr. and Mrs. Tony Malkin Mr. Richard Prins Mr. Kevin McAdams The Estate of Kathleen McDermott Mr. and Mrs. David Stern GIFTS OF $10,000.00 Ms. Edith McBean Dr. and Mrs. John McGrath Ms. Jean Kennedy Smith AND GREATER Mr. John Moore Ms. Laura Moore Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tonetti Mr. and Mrs. John Abplanalp Mr. and Mrs. Bradford T. Nordholm Mrs. Alison Morgridge Mr. Mark Vigneri Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Adler Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pacchiana Ms. Abigail Norman Waterkeeper Alliance Anonymous Donor Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Pittman The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ascher Polo Ralph Lauren Pier Sixty, LLC GIFTS OF $1,000.00 Mr. James A. Attwood and Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Resnick Mr. and Mrs. David Reilly AND GREATER Ms. Leslie Kim Williams Mr. and Mrs. Mark Rockefeller The Scherman Foundation, Inc. Ms. Wendy Abrams Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Anonymous Donor Ms. Elizabeth Strickler Mr. Larry Aidem Foundation Mr. Harvey Schwartz The Vervane Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Altschuler Mr. Christopher Bartle and Mr. Steve Some Aronovitz Family Foundation Ms. Eva Gartner Mr. John Storey GIFT OF $2,500.00 Mr. Zack Bacon III Mr. Ron Blaylock Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tishman AND GREATER Mr. and Mrs. Shelly Bergman Ms. Seema Boesky Verizon Foundation Anonymous Donor Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Beyman Ironshore Mr. and Mrs. Klaus von Heidegger Mr. David Phillip Ansel Ms. Clara Bingham Ms. Sarah Beatty Buller Johanette Wallerstein Institute Ms. Katherine Arthaud Ms. Lorraine Bracco Mr. and Mrs. Paul Camarda Whole Foods Mr. Vickram A. Bedi The Brearley School Mr. James Cavanaugh Mr. Ed Harris Ms. Christie Brinkley Charlotte Cunneen-Hackett GIFTS OF $5,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Butler Mr. Charles Buki Charitable Trust AND GREATER Mr. Jeffrey Colle Mrs. Julia Vance Carter Steven A. & Alexandra M. Cohen Mr. Roger E. Ailes Ms. Mootsy Elliot and Mr. Isadore Cassuto Foundation, Inc. Mr. Bruce C. Blank and Ms. Jill Kalman Mr. Joseph Abrams 30 Mr. Shawn Cavanaugh Mr. Robert Lessin Mr. William Walsh Ms. Yukako Kawata Mr. Gary Colello Mr. Peter A. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Ward III Mr. George A. Kellner Ms. Adelaide DeMenil and Mr. Scott Lindsay Ms. Lin Chooi Wong Ms. Jean Kenna Heins Mr. Edmund Carpenter Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Lonberg Ziff Brothers Investments Ms. Marjorie Klayman Ms. Lauren De Paola Ms. Linda J. Luca Mr. Craig Klosk and Ms. Amy Desmond Mr. and Mrs. John Macfarlane Mrs.Tricia Kallett Klosk Dickler Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. Greg MacGillivray GIFTS OF $500.00 Anonymous Donor AND GREATER Mr. Tom Diorio Ms. Jeanne Markel and Mr. David S. Lindau Mr. and Mrs. Leo Arnaboldi Ms. Alice DiMarzio Mr. Chris Wedge Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lumet Mr. Seth Bergstein and Dixon Talent, Inc. Ms. Rebecca Markley Dr. George C. Matthiessen and Mrs. Alexandra Mochary Bergstein Ms. Junia Doan Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Mrs. Ormsby H. Matthiessen Mr. E.S. Berstein Earth Share of New York Mr. and Mrs. Jason McManus Mr. Jake Messing Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Buckfire Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ehrlich Mr. and Mrs. Howard McMorris Mr. and Mrs. Roger Michaels Mr. and Mrs. Cass Canfield Ms. Bianca Evans-Ostrander Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Melchior Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Carpenter Ms. Alina Fisch Dr. Florence Milch Impact Funding Trust Charles Schwab Mr. Hamilton Fish Mrs. Ilo B. Milstein Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund Ms. Judith Chiara Mr. Murray Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Gary Missigman Natural Gourmet Institute For Food Mr. Paul Childs and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Flavin Mr. Allen Monks and Health Ms. Berit Schumann Mr. Lawrence B. Friedman and Mr. David B. Murphy Network for Good Ms. Sarah Cogan and Ms. Michele Hertz Mr. Nels Olson Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc. Mr. Douglas H. Evans The Gere Foundation Mr. Daniel O’Neill Ms. Karen Outlaw Mr. and Mrs. Tom J. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gleberman On The Avenue Marketing Mr. Richard Pascoe and Anonymous Donor Mr. and Mrs. Adam Gordon The Pannonia Foundation Ms. Clare Giffin Ms. Ann Davlin Mr. and Mrs. Larry Grafstein Mr. Neal Pawar Mr. William Plotch Mr. and Mrs. Philip Day Ms. Jennifer Grossman Mr. Eric A. Pike Ms. Bonnie Raitt Mrs. Katarina Duplessy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Handler Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ragucci Mr. Judson Reis Mr. Jason Duran Robert and Helen Hardman Family Fund Mr. Bradford Rand Mr. and Mrs. Ira Resnick Mr. Gregory Durniak The Harrison T. LeFrak Charitable Ms. Elizabeth Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Riley Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Dyott Foundation, Inc. Mr. Hartley Rogers and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mr. Michael Edelman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison Mrs. Amy Falls-Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Rosenblatt Ms. Rosalind Walrath Ms. Deborah Harry Mr. Jonathan F.P. Rose Ms. Sandra Saiger and Ms. Julie C. Eichenberger Mrs. Anne Hearst McInerney and Ms. Cynthia Ryan Mr. Roger Goldman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Feigen Mr. Jay McInerney Anonymous Donor Mr. Alex Schmelzer Mr. Paul M. Feuerman Mr. Clay Hiles and Ms. Sarah Chasis Mr. Seymour Schwartz Shaklee The Fledgling Fund Mr. Ari Hoffman Mr. Christopher Sherman Mr. Martin Solomon Ms. Elizabeth Flynn Dr. Mady Hornig and Dr. Ian Lipkin Mr. Joseph Struzziery Mr. Kevin Spath Mr. Peter Frank Ms. Anne Isaak Mr. Stuart Sundlun Ms. Dana Stuart-Bullock Ms. Jenevra Georgini JBP Foundation Ms. Hannah Swett Ms. Janet B. Stoner Goldman Sachs & Co. Matching Gift Mr. Bobbo Jetmundsen Mr. Jeffrey Tannenbaum and Ms. Eugenie Sullivan Program Mr. William R. Kager Ms. Nisa Geller TerraCycle, Inc. Mr. Adrian Grenier Mr. George Kaufman Dr. Robert Tash and Dr. Denise Leslie Mr. Roger W. Van Voorhees Mr. Kenneth Griffin Mr. Roger Kass Ms. Julie Taymor Village of Tarrytown Ms. Lucille Hamlin Senator and Mrs. John Kerry The Tennis Channel, Inc. Mr. Roger E.Weisberg and

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n FAREN BROOKE COLLINS JAMES FALLON u l

o Giving Water Pollution a Beauty of a Fight Leading the next generation of Riverkeepers V n July 2010, Faren Brooke Collins reached n December 2010, fourth-grader James Fallon reached out to Iout to Riverkeeper as the perfect partner IRiverkeeper as part of an assignment for his enrichment to help forward her platform as Miss class at the Wampus School in Armonk, NewYork. A young United States Water, an element title in environmentalist who is passionate about clean water, James the Miss Earth Pageant. A NewYork City keeps up on the latest issues through the Riverkeeper web resident, Faren has been impacted and site and joined our Facebook communities, but he wanted to inspired by her proximity to the Hudson do more. He requested an interview with Riverkeeper River and entered the pageant with the Executive Director, Paul Gallay, which James filmed. He then goal of using her status to raise water con - turned his report into a Riverkeeper Powerpoint presentation servation and pollution awareness. Faren feels that that he gave to both his enrichment and fourth grade classes. Riverkeeper “embodies what the fight for clean water is all He talked about our mission and highlighted the historic about” and is partnering with us to help people living in the city ExxonMobil settlement. James didn’t stop there; he gave a become more knowledgeable about their waterways and needs $100 donation to Riverkeeper the day of his interview and of the Hudson River. She made her first Riverkeeper appearance purchased water bottles for the kids and teachers in his on October 17, 2010, as part of the NYC Green City Challenge enrichment and fourth grade classes. James stays informed that took place next to the East River. “It’s amazing to me how of key issues and spreads the word to other kids about why so many people take for granted the very source that sustains they should care about clean water. life,” said Faren. “I’m proud to be a part of Riverkeeper and help He’s a young person who is to bring awareness to its mission, especially to our youth.” making a difference as a voice of Faren will be working with Riverkeeper throughout 2011 on New future generations. Here are York City outreach and community events. some easy ways for kids to get involved and become Riverkeeper advocates: ROXI SUGER I Use our FirstGiving web giving A Business Partner Making a Difference program to ask for donations in place of or in addition to esigner Roxi Suger is a mother, profes - birthday, bar/bat mitzvah, or Dsor at the Parsons School of Design and holiday presents. It is so sim - owner of Angelrox, a signature design eco ple: upload pictures, add a ladies clothing collection based in Brooklyn, message and e-mail your NewYork. She is also one of Riverkeeper’s friends and family asking for most avid business partners. In 2011, Roxi their support with the attached reached out to Riverkeeper, excited to make URL that will link them directly NewYork’s clean water advocate a recipient to your donation page! For of an annual percentage of all Angelrox more information go to www.firstgiving.org/riverkeeper retail sales. She also provides a discount to Riverkeeper sup - I Selling Riverkeeper merchandise is a great way to spark up porters. Roxi’s philosophy is to inspire people to treat them - a conversation about Riverkeeper’s campaigns and collect selves, others and the planet with equal respect and harmony. donations. All proceeds from our merchandise go directly All of the company’s fabrics are knit on the East coast with back to our programs. Contact [email protected] to get renewable materials including bamboo & certified organic started. cottons grown in the USA. Angelrox is committed to helping I Join our Volunteer Facebook page and check out the latest others and lessening its environmental impact. volunteer pictures, information, events and chat with other Riverkeeper Business Partners provide essential support to Riverkeeper volunteers at http://on.fb.me/eCT2bx the critical work that we do every day and help us reach out I Bring Riverkeeper to school! Fill out our online speaker to people living in NewYork City and communities along the request form and invite a Riverkeeper speaker to visit your Hudson River with important information about the health of class or an assembly. Contact us if you have a unique proj - their waterways and drinking water supplies. Angelrox is help - ect that Riverkeeper can get involved with like James Fallon ing Riverkeeper raise awareness and forward our mission.To did!The speaker request form is located at find out more about how to become a Riverkeeper Business http://www.riverkeeper.org/contact/. Partner, visit www.riverkeeper.org.You may also shop to sup - port Riverkeeper at www.angelrox.com. Use code “riverkeeper” for a 25% savings on all purchases. Visit www.riverkeeper.org and sign-up for our E-Newsletter and E-Alerts to stay current on news and events. 32 Member

Spotlight ByTara D’Andrea

Justin Derfner, Jimmy Dean’s Love of Waters Remembered New Board with a Gift to Riverkeeper Member Among Connie Dean-Taylor’s Connie and her Riverkeeper welcomed Justin most cherished memories of her father began boat - Derfner to our Board of Directors late father, Country Music Hall of ing on the in 2010. Justin is co-founder and Fame inductee and entrepreneur Potomac River in a managing member of The Jimmy Dean, are childhood days Virginia, when Juster Group, a real estate acqui - boating and water skiing with Jimmy Dean had sition, financing, development him and her family in the Hudson a ski boat and and investment firm. Justin was River and surrounding waters. water skied with previously a Vice President at The These memories are what little Connie on Feil Organization, a real estate prompted Connie to recommend his shoulders. S E G

business in which he worked in to Sara Lee Corporation, which When Connie A M I Y

partnership structuring and acqui - acquired Jimmy Dean’s famous was 10 years T T E sition and disposition of assets in sausage company in 1984, that it old, the family acquired a yacht G markets across the United States. designate a contribution to which took its maiden voyage in particularly prized the view of “Justin brings important skills Riverkeeper in memory of her the Hudson River and docked at the James River from his home, and a passion for our work to the father. the Englewood Boat Basin in according to Connie. Board of Directors,” said Howard “I like to think that through New Jersey. The yacht was Connie Dean-Taylor says that Rubin, Chairman of the Board. this gift, the Hudson River—and named “Big Bad John” after her father’s love of nature and “We’re excited to have him join other waters by extension—are a Jimmy Dean’s 1960s Grammy water-based activities endure as us and contribute to the creative little bit better because of Dad,” Award-winning country music hit. one of his defining characteristics. thinking we’re doing as we set said Connie. As the family grew, so did the “I find myself thinking of my the course for Riverkeeper’s “With this donation, we are boats in being more sea-worthy, Dad quite often whenever I am in future.” truly honored to contribute to the and the family enjoyed waters or near the water,” she said. Justin holds a J.D. from preservation of the waters Mr. from Maine to the Bahamas. Riverkeeper is honored to Brooklyn Law School, and also Dean cherished so much during Later, when Jimmy Dean receive this gift in memory of practiced law in the real estate his life,” said Daryl Gormley, Vice settled in Richmond, VA, he Jimmy Dean, and grateful to Sara department at Stroock & Stroock President, Jimmy Dean Brand at worked with the former Governor Lee Corp. and Connie Dean-Taylor & Lavan LLP. Sara Lee Corporation. and Senator of that state, George for their support of our programs. “The mission of Riverkeeper is Jimmy Dean passed away in Allen, to spearhead cleanup initia - an important one which is pre - June 2010 at the age of 81. tives on the James River. He serving our natural resources so that they remain wholly intact as an integral part of our lives and the lives of future generations,” said Justin.

33 BALANCE SHEET * As of June 30, 2010

ASSETS 4% Prepaid expenses Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,209,641 and deposits Pledges receivable $ 582,864 4% Property & Equipment Property and Equipment (net) $ 79,902 Prepaid expenses and deposits $ 81,996 62% Cash and cash 30% equivalents Total Assets $ 1,954,403 Pledges receivable

LIABILITIES Accounts payable $ 637,640

Total liabilities $ 637,640 33% Accounts payable

NET ASSETS 54% Unrestricted Unrestricted $ 1,053,935 Temporarily restricted $ 262,828 13% Total Net Assets $ 1,316,763 Temporarily restricted Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 1,954,403

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION * Year ended June 30, 2010

1% Other revenue SUPPORT AND REVENUE 16% Donated 0% Investment revenue Contributions $ 1,455,087 legal services Special events $ 1,107,033 Donated legal services $ 488,601 47% Investment revenue $ 7,177 Contributions Other revenue $ 16,270 36% Special events Total support and revenue $ 3,074,168

EXPENSES 13% Fundraising Program services $ 2,647,230 Management $ 284,594 8% Management Fundraising $ 449,884 Total Expenses $ 3,381,708 79% Program services Surplus/Increase in Net Assets $ (307,540)

*B ASED ON THE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2010 REPORTS PREPARED BY KATARINA DUPLESSY , VP/COO

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