Fwd: CWQT Week 12--results

[Rob Buchanan]

There was almost no recorded precipitation in Central Park this week--only 0.4 inches last Sunday--so one might have expected our results to be mostly in the 'green' (in other words, meeting beach bathing standards). That didn't happen, probably for many reasons. In some places, there may be broken pipes or (illegal) dry-weather discharges, while in others the issue could be street cleaning, high winds stirring up sediment, or even excessive waterfowl populations. How to figure it out? More testing!

Click here to see our latest results. 

Finally feels like summer out there

WATERWAYS NEWS OF NOTE:

Can Kate Orff's gray-green infrastructure save the city?   (the New Yorker)

Green roofs sprout at the Brooklyn Navy Yard  (NYCDEP)

Got $395? Take a seaplane to Boston (CBS New York)

WEEKEND EVENTS OF INTEREST:

Hong Kong Dragonboat Festival on Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Park, Saturday Aug 7 (tomorrow) in Flushing Meadows Park

https://www.hkdbf-ny.org/

Hindu Lamp Ceremony, Main St. Beach, Dumbo, Saturday August 7 (tomorrow)  4-7:30

Build paper boats and expand your aesthetic horizons at the arts center at Governors Island

WEEKLY SLIDE SHOW:

Holly Fongblatt and Arturo Mendoza, intrepid Newtown Creek cyclosamplers!

Department of good ideas: "Filter sock" for sediment control during construction on Governors Island. It's stuffed with locally sourced hardwood compost. 

Rachel Wu and Rebecca Pryor of the Guardians of Flushing Bay measuring dissolved oxygen levels (and a lot of other stuff) on Flushing Creek. 

More water science: Lamont Doherty Earth Institute's Beizhan Yan and Federico de Lima at Wallabout Channel with a passive sampler--a mesh box strung with microplastic beads that will be analyzed for the contaminants that attach to them.

"You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave"

Julia Holmes (who rowed the Erie Canal and the Mississippi) out on the East River for the first time

Species ID quiz: what fish?

Harbor geography quiz: what waterway?

Last week's quiz answers:

 

Species ID: Wharf Roach (Ligia exotica)

 

Harbor geography: Dyckman St. Beach, upper Manhattan

The Citizens Water Quality Testing Program (CWQT) is a collaboration between the New York City Water Trail Association, the Billion Oyster Project, and Hudson River Park's River Project, with support from Two Trees Management. 

Partner programs and labs sharing their data (or publishing ours) include: Bronx River Alliance, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Interstate Environmental Commission, Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Monsignor Farrell High School, Newtown Creek Alliance, St. Francis College, Sarah Lawrence Center for the Urban River, SUNY Maritime Marine Environmental Science Department, Queens College Biology Department. 

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