Newtown Creek Alliance
New York City
The Newtown Creek Alliance (NCA) is a community organization dedicated to revitalizing, restoring and revealing Newtown Creek.
History Past NCA Events Links Contact
The next Newtown Creek Cruise is scheduled for Sunday, September 14, 2008.
Sign up for the waiting list at info@newtowncreekalliance.org
Mention "Creek Cruise"
Habitatmap is an environmental health justice organization that leverages community knowledge to achieve just and sustainable urban spaces. Their collaborative mapping and social networking tools are designed to maximize the impact of community voices on city planning. Currently they are focusing on Newtown Creek, the slim body of water dividing western Queens from northern Brooklyn, and its surrounding neighborhoods
April 24, 2008 U.S. House Passage of New Environmental Study for Newtown Creek
$625k Grant Awarded For Brownfields Remediation Planning Around Newtown Creek
State Money to Fund Community Work of GMDC, Riverkeeper & Newtown Creek Alliance
Click here for press release Riverkeeper announcement
Community Health & Harm Narratives: Exploring the Public Health Concerns of Communities along the Newtown Creek
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The Newtown Creek Alliance hosted cruises on July 8 and September 16, 2007.
Here is a view taken during our July 8 tour. The classic tug Cheyenne is westbound at Pulaski Bridge. Image courtesy of Cindy Goulder.
Opened
September 29, 2007
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
Entrance at foot of Paidge Avenue, Greenpoint NY
Open dawn to dusk, weather permitting.
Christine
Holowacz, Community Liaison
718 349-0150
Newtown Creek EPA
Report released September 12, 2007
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is overseeing cleanup and remediation of the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint oil spill in Brooklyn, N.Y. EPA conducted, at the request of Congress, a study of the public health and safety issues related to the oil spill. Government officials detected the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint oil spill in 1978 and estimated that the some 17 million gallons of petroleum covered more than 50 acres of underground area. Free product exists in large amounts on the water table between Monitor Street and Kingsland Avenue, and extends southeast near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Residual petroleum contamination exists in local groundwater, native soil and fill materials. About half of the spilled oil has been recovered by several oil companies.
Newtown Creek Oil Spill: A review of Remedial Progress (1979 - 20007) - September 12, 2007 [PDF 2.6 MB, 85 pp]
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to Sue ExxonMobil in Landmark Case to Clean Up Catastrophic Greenpoint Oil Spill and Newtown Creek Contamination
Sunset, July 2, 2008
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