Keeping Our Streams Clean: Minisceongo Creek

Keeping Our Streams Clean: Minisceongo Creek

PRESS RELEASE – This Saturday, October 27 volunteers will gather at Garner Arts Center at 10:00am to clean up the Minisceongo Creek, which runs throughout Northern Rockland and feeds into the Hudson River Estuary. The cleanup is the first opportunity to learn about the emerging Minisceongo Creek Watershed Alliance.  In case of inclement weather, registered volunteers […]

Cleanup Begins in Paint-Polluted Torne Valley

Cleanup Begins in Paint-Polluted Torne Valley

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Oily residue in nearby Ringwood, NJ, an area negatively impacted by the Ford plant. Photo Credit: Environmental News Service Hillburn – After decades of problems in the Torne Valley due to contamination from the dumping of paint sludge, the Ford Motor Company finally begun hazardous waste cleanup near the Ramapo River on […]