Category: Water Quality
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Our Hot HAB Summer
Reclaiming our Rivers This summer brought news of a harmful algal bloom (HAB) that closed access to our village kayak launch in Horan’s Landing. The release of raw sewage from the Westchester County Wastewater Treatment Plant in Yonkers that closed our entire waterfront. In addition, the Yonkers plant continues permitted sewage overflows into the Hudson…
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Golf Club with 75 Homes at Routes 117 and 9?
The Proposed Project would include the clearing of approximately 90 acres of currently forested lands. STORMWATER MANAGEMENT The Proposed Project would add new impervious surfaces, and increased stormwater runoff and erosion could result from site disturbance and construction of new impervious surfaces in the form of structures and roads. In addition, surface water and groundwater…
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State of the Hudson
The Yonkers Wastewater Recovery facility (where our sewage goes) lost power and discharged sewage into the river on July 3. Westchester County passed on the New York State warning telling people not to use the river.Then heavy rains that weekend lead to potentially more storm and wastewater in the river. The county told people to…
