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Photos of the week:
New volunteer: Richard Rivera, a student at Kingsborough Community College, sampling at West 20th Street on Coney Island Creek.
Illumination = contamination: The River Project's head educator Eli Caref, left, and Lab Chief Nina Zain using a black light to count illuminated wells on IDEXX Quanti-trays, ice-tray-like contraptions that we use to estimate amounts of Enterococcus, a reliable fecal-indicator bacterium.
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Where would you rather swim? Coney Island Creek sample on the left, Pier 40 sample on the right.
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Young volunteer: Amy John's son Alpheus helping out at Bushwick Inlet Park on the East River.
Big stink in Raritan Bay: low dissolved oxygen levels led to a pair of massive fish kills earlier this week. More details
here, along with a
statement from NY-NJ Baykeeper.