Newtown Creek Alliance

The Newtown Creek Alliance is a community-based cheap propecia organization dedicated to restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek.

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Newtown Creek Vision Plan

In 2018, NCA, Riverkeeper and Perkins+Will launched the Newtown Creek Vision plan, a 150 page report chronicling priority issues and 85 proposed projects levitra from india to address Remediation, Restoration, Recreation and Resilience. The report builds upon decades of planning and visioning efforts by numerous community members and organizations; framing ideas in the wake of upcoming Superfund remediation and Clean Water improvements. Read cialis 20mg the full plan here.

Newtown Creek StoryMaps

Explore these interactive educational resources on ArcGIS StoryMaps to learn more about the Creek's ecosystem and NCA’s efforts in environmental remediation, restoration, and revitalization. We have units available on the history and geography of the Creek, regional flora and fauna, Newtown Creek's soil and water health, and the impact of climate change on NYC's coastal communities. Click "read more" to view them all.

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Newtown Creek Alliance
is at Maspeth Queens NY.

5 days ago

2024 Riverkeeper Sweep 🌊 🧹 Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to help remove trash, pull knotweed, and do some hardscaping at Plank Road. All the hard work will help protect our local wildlife, allow native plants to thrive, and better filter stormwater before it flows into #newtowncreekStay posted for My husband used to start everyday with the product and it really works viagra 100mg england. You are guaranteed to find our products safe and best for your purposes. more upcoming hands-on volunteer events, and go check out the Plank Road Public Shoreline in Maspeth if you have never been!#RiverkeeperSweep Riverkeeper
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1 week ago

Tree Bed Maintenance with Lincoln Restler and Big Reuse Sunday, May 5 | 10AM-12PM | Greenpoint - Meet at Corner of Dupont + Commercial StreetsFor cleaning any refuse out of tree beds, weeding, cultivating soil w/ compost + sweeping. Please wear comfortable clothes appropriate for the weather and close toed shoes. This is a great event for children too! Register here:
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District 33 Street Tree Stewardship Volunteer Form

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Newtown Creek Alliance
is in Newtown Creek.

1 week ago

ExxonMobil is seeking to consolidate and relocate two existing groundwater treatment systems associated with the Greenpoint Oil Spill to a new groundwater treatment facility at 38 Varick Street, Brooklyn, NY (one of Exxon’s sites in Greenpoint).On 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐚𝐭 𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦, Exxon is hosting a 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 to present the project to the community in accordance with NYS guidelines.NCA has several concerns regarding this modification:- Concern 1: Going from two treatment systems to one- Concern 2: Concentrating discharge activities at Penny Bridge (Meeker Ave street end)- Concern 3: A 10 acre Creekside property can be sold to the highest bidderExxonMobil was built on the banks of Newtown Creek. They made trillions of $$$ in profit, and left a toxic legacy in Greenpoint that includes the country’s largest terrestrial oil spill, and NYC's largest federal superfund site.𝐖𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐚𝐭 𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥.Learn more about ExxonMobil’s proposed permit modification in here: www.newtowncreekalliance.org/exxonmobil-permits/. You can also find the meeting link there.#GreenpointOilSpill #Exxon #Superfund #ExxonMobil #NewtownCreek #OilSpill #Brooklyn #Greenpoint #Greenpointers #ClimateCrisis
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2 weeks ago

🌀 🌍 A whirlwind of an Earth Week for NCA! A few photos of what we were up to:🚲 Creek Curiosities Bike Tour🧤 Corporate Volunteer Events with TripleLift Triple Lift and United Nations Federal Credit Union 🌳 Arbor Day dedication with NYC Parks Commissioner Donoghue 🪚 Construction new Living Docks with @officialwhsad🦀 St.Francis Preparatory School learning about Marine Ecology at Queens Landing🚣‍♂️ Boat Tour of Dutch Kills with LaGuardia Community College President Adams⚖️ Environmental law class from CUNY School of Law discussing legacy pollution and enforcement 🌱 Tree planting on Review Ave with NYC Parks and Blissville CivicMore public events coming up this week, check the 🔗 in our profile!
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Newtown Creek Alliance
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3 weeks ago

📹EarthCam x 🌎 Earth Day Announcement!NCA has partnered with EarthCam to bring you live streaming views of Newtown Creek! We’re thrilled to join this network of webcams, showcasing different landmarks/areas of interest around the world. NCA’s EarthCam, stationed at the Kingsland Wildflowers shoreline, will highlight marine traffic, industrial activity, waterfowl, and recreational boaters along Newtown Creek. We hope this offers a new way for the community to access and learn about what’s happening on the Creek and to form closer relationships with the local ecosystem. Check it out at www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/longislandcity/?cam=newtowncreek and let us know what you see!Special thanks to EarthCam for this exciting partnership which will help us reveal Newtown Creek to locals and web visitors across the globe.#earthcam #earthday2024 #NewtownCreekLive
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Green Infrastructure Workgroup Snoops Around

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Where are opportunities in the watershed for investment in Green Infrastructure? That was the question of the day when this past weekend, members of the Green Infrastructure Workgroup roved around by bike scouring the landscape for future sites to manage stormwater, restore habitat and improve the water quality in Newtown Creek. We visited multiple sites […]

Brooklyn Paper reports on DEP’s plan to aerate Newtown Creek

We can come up with a better way to spend $115M, don’t you think? “It’s a very narrow solution to a very big problem that’s just addressing current standards for dissolved oxygen,” said Phil Musegaas, lead investigator of Riverkeeper, an environmental watchdog group that wrote a scathing letter to the city earlier this month. “It’s […]

Rally to oppose Thermal “Waste-to-Energy” Facilities

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On Monday, April 9th at 10am, environmental justice groups, environmental organizations, community leaders and elected officials from Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan will rally to oppose the Bloomberg administration’s plan for thermal “Waste-to-Energy” facilities (a.k.a. incinerators). Two of the proposed sites for this facility are on the shores of Newtown Creek, and our communities host 40% […]

April NCA meeting hosts Dr. Eric Sanderson

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Mark your calendar: April 26, 2012 at 6pm Ridgewood Democratic Club 6070 Putnam Avenue Ridgewood, NY 11385 In addition to important updates from our members – in particular the Bioremedition and Green Infrastructure Workgroups have been very busy! – we will be hosting a special presentation on the “Historical Ecology of Newtown Creek” by Dr. Eric Sanderson, senior conservation ecologist at […]