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Be the Guardians of Flushing Bay
Be the Guardians of Flushing Bay
Flushing Waterways Vision Launch
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Help launch the second stage of Flushing Waterways visioning, a community-driven process that re-imagines Flushing Bay and Creek. Your input is needed to transform the waterways into clean, accessible, and industry-friendly open space that the community and ecology deserve.
Participants will have a chance to learn more about the visioning process,…
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This fall, we’ve had the distinct pleasure of going out on the water with Riverkeeper, thanks to the enduring work of Captain John Lipscomb. We got to see where industry meets water on Flushing Creek & Bay, Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, and the recovery of wildlife and potential for recreation on all these waterways. Among the adventures, we found a discarded pet - a red-eared slider - floating in the Gowanus Canal. Though rescued from the salty canal water, the freshwater turtle didn’t make it past two days.
Riverkeeper has been the star of local news lately. Check out the articles on Newtown Creek in the Brooklyn Ink, Public Advocate Letitia James’ trip on Flushing Bay in the Queens Courier, and a podcast about water infrastructure on the Leonard Lopate show on WNYC. We’re proud to work closely with such influential water advocates!
As Dragon Boaters and fishermen know, Flushing Creek has some of the worst water quality in New York City.The Long Term Control Plan by the city government must reduce the amount of pollution in the waterways of New York City to meet the goals of the Clean Water Act. The NYC Department of Environmental Protection improvements to aging sewer infrastructure and wastewater treatment plants have greatly improved local water quality in recent decades, but this plan (nyc.gov/html/dep/html/cso_long_term_control_plan/flushing_creek_ltcp.shtml) doesn’t do enough to actually reduce sources of pollution.
Queens Chronicle has a great write up on the city’s long term plans for Flushing Creek. Open Sewer Atlas NYC is currently researching the Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek watershed and sewersheds, and will have a new sewershed map of the region by the end of the year. Stay tuned!
Cleaning Flushing's Waterfront - Public Meeting
Cleaning Flushing’s Waterfront – Public Meeting
Photo taken from the west side of Flushing Bay
Flushing Bay and Creek, which lay within the bounds of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, are two highly polluted water bodies contaminated by Combined Sewage Overflows (CSOs). A CSO event occurs during wet weather events; rainwater overloads our sewage treatment systems causing an outflow of untreated raw sewage into local waterways. The flow of raw…
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Plane skids off New York runway during snow storm
Plane skids off New York runway during snow storm
Emergency officials were called to the airport at about 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) but no major injuries have been reported.
Local media pictures appear to show the plane, a Delta MD-88, has pushed past the airport fence.
Delta Air Lines says passengers left the plane via aircraft slides and were being brought to the terminal by bus.
Heavy snow has been falling in New York since earlier…
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