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Fifty years ago, New York voters approved the Pure Waters Bond Act, a predecessor of the Clean Water Act, which set the national goal of making all our waters safe…

ByDan Shapley 0Comments

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Aug 2015

Uncategorized

Resisting Development, Battling Leaks, Stemming Sewage: The Quiet Drama of NYC Water

Finish the breakfast dishes, take a shower, flush the toilet, brush your teeth, boil some water for tea and then sit down to hear reporting and interviews on the city’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2015

Opinion

City’s Sewer Overflows are Your Problem, too

A coalition of water-quality groups outline ways that policymakers, city workers and individual residents can make a dent in the amount of untreated water that taints New York’s creeks, rivers…

ByJarrett Murphy 4Comments

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Jun 2015

Investigations

New York Confronts Polluted Past in its Waterways

Of all the challenges facing the city’s awe-inspiring water system, the most contentious might be playing out now at Flushing Bay, the Bronx River and other waterways, where a push…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Apr 2015

In Depth

UrbaNERD: New York City is Way Rainier Than Seattle

That this city is rainier than most is both a bragging right and a major factor in policy discussions about everything from sewage to transit.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Uncategorized

Critics Slam City Plan to Reduce Sewage Spills

A strategy to clean up Flushing Creek, one of a number of waterways the city has to target for pollution reduction, has environmentalists pushing the de Blasio administration to use…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Aug 2014

Uncategorized

City Finally Beating Back Queens Floodwaters

After decades of regular flooding in the borough’s southeast, a $6 billion infrastructure project is having an impact. Some want DEP to go further and pump out rising groundwater.

ByKen Thorbourne 0Comments

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Apr 2014

Uncategorized

Water Rate Hike Lower, But Not Enough for Critics

Some background on the “rental payment” that has the mayor and a councilman facing off.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 2013

Uncategorized

EPA Approves Gowanus Cleanup Plan

The agency’s decision—which backtracked on a proposal to store some contaminated material in Red Hook—clears the way for a $506 million cleanup to begin.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2012

Government

Where Does the Gowanus Cleanup Stand?

Two years after the EPA designated the Gowanus Canal a Superfund Site, Brooklyn College reporter Rene Askew and producer Christina Asencio take a look at progress on the project and…

ByRene Askew and Christina Asencio 0Comments

Consequences are Coming from NYS’s Lack of Clean Water Investment

Resisting Development, Battling Leaks, Stemming Sewage: The Quiet Drama of NYC Water

City’s Sewer Overflows are Your Problem, too

New York Confronts Polluted Past in its Waterways

UrbaNERD: New York City is Way Rainier Than Seattle

Critics Slam City Plan to Reduce Sewage Spills

City Finally Beating Back Queens Floodwaters

Water Rate Hike Lower, But Not Enough for Critics

EPA Approves Gowanus Cleanup Plan

Where Does the Gowanus Cleanup Stand?

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