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-Friday, 3/27
After the Flush -- Westchester's Wastewater and the Environment
Conservation Cafe Forum
-Thursday, 4/9
Lecture Series at the Nyack Library - Featuring RvK Boat Captain John Lipscomb
-Thursday, 4/22
Fishermen's Ball
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 Delaware Aqueduct Leak Report
On March 25, Riverkeeper released “Preparing to Repair: The Delaware Aqueduct Leak and New York City’s Efforts to Repair It.” For more than two decades, the Delaware Aqueduct—which carries more than half of New York City’s daily water supply—has been leaking up to 35 million gallons a day. Since Riverkeeper’s 2001 “Finger in the Dike” report, the Delaware Aqueduct has leaked up to 97 billion gallons of drinking water. “Preparing to Repair” details how residents in Wawarsing, NY, must live with impacts from the leak—flooded basements, contaminated drinking water, and sinkholes. The update also reports on DEP’s preliminary steps to begin to repair the leak.
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 RvK Comments on Indian Point Enviromental Impacts
On March 18, Riverkeeper (RvK) submitted comments opposing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) review of the environmental impacts of Indian Point, which recommended relicensing the plant. Refuting NRC’s claims that the plant poses no significant public or environmental health threats, RvK's comments state that the plant kills more than a billion fish every year; its spent fuel pools are leaking radioactive water; it is vulnerable to terrorist attack; and, it is amassing thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will remain on the site for decades.
RvK continues to build its legal challenge against relicensing in preparation for a formal hearing in spring 2010. Riverkeeper’s full comments are posted on our website.
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 Entergy Loses Appeal, Radioactive Leaks to be Considered
On March 5, the NRC denied an appeal filed by Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, which sought to throw out an important environmental claim raised by Riverkeeper in its challenge to the plant’s relicensing.
Riverkeeper’s claim objects to Entergy’s assessment of the environmental impacts of highly toxic radioactive water leaks from the facility’s spent fuel pools. Now that the Commissioners have rejected this final appeal, Riverkeeper, bolstered further, will continue to litigate this important issue.
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 Riverkeeper Backs Efforts to Put Newtown Creek on Superfund List
On March 20, Riverkeeper joined The Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Newtown Creek Alliance, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), and Councilman Eric Gioia at Newtown Creek to discuss a new report that reveals the relationship between global climate change, corporate bankruptcies and the crisis of the federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup program. The report, "Superfund: In the Eye of the Storm", calls on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to add Newtown Creek to the federal Superfund National Priorities List and urges federal policymakers to support the reinstatement of "polluter-pays" fees, which expired more than a decade ago.
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 RvK Comments on Rensselaer Riverfront Development
On March 17, Riverkeeper submitted comments on the Rensselaer Riverfront Redevelopment Project, urging the city to accurately measure and mitigate its environmental impacts, as it prepares its Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS). Among Riverkeeper’s concerns is the massive development’s affect on climate change, given the substantial increase in greenhouse gases that will result. Another concern is the harm to the Hudson River and its aquatic life that would result from stormwater runoff, sewage and CSOs, and the re-engineered shoreline. Following Riverkeeper’s earlier comments, the review process introduced several environmentally-friendly modifications. We are hopeful that our new comments will be fully incorporated into the project’s plans.
Project rendering can be found at: http://www.uwmarx.com/waterfront/newsite/index.htm
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 Shad Fest on Sabbatical
This year, we have decided to suspend our annual spring celebration, Shad Fest, so that we can focus our efforts on our Henry Hudson Quadricentennial events which we hope you’ll enjoy (see our calendar for details).
We expect to bring Shad Fest back again next year. In the meantime, please plan to join us in late June as we host a celebration of the global waterkeeper movement. Stay tuned for further details.
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