Fwd: CWQT Week 15--results

[Rob Buchanan]

In honor of Hurricane Henri's visit last weekend, we decided to do some extra sampling at four of our East River sites, in order to get a better sense of 'recovery time'--that is, how long it takes for bacteria levels in the water to return to acceptable levels. You can see from the graph below (or this results table) how the sites improved from Monday, when it was still raining, to Thursday. 

Au revoir Henri: Tuesday's sample at Brooklyn Bridge Beach. 

Here are the results plotted on a graph--note that scale on left is logarithmic. 

Click here to see our Thursday results from all over the harbor. For a map of our testing sites, click here. 

WATERWAYS NEWS:

2 Months of Rain in a Day and a Half: New York City Sets Records (New York Times)

First it was hemp, now it's kelp (The Guardian)

Wiring the Hudson: update on riverbottom power cables proposed for the Hudson (Riverkeeper)

When Environmental Racism Causes a Hygienic Hell (New York Times)

WEEKLY SLIDE SHOW:

Wow, looks like a pretty good beach--too bad it's about to be buried under giant blocks of rip-rap (Graeme Birchall)

Last day on the job: Karina Garcia, Pace biology major and intern extraordinaire, sampling at Brooklyn Bridge Beach.

Please stay one sturgeon apart! (Dawn Marie Berry)

Microplastics samplers have big jars: Beizhan Yan and Federico de Lima at Wallabout Channel.

Needle, tracks: Brooklyn Bridge Beach

Hang time: blue crabs in Newtown Creek

Wanna ship something up or down the Hudson in a carbon-neutral way? Check out the schooner Apollonia's sail freight operation. 

Species ID: what fish?

Harbor Geography: what two bridges and what power plant?

Last week's quiz answers:

A lot of you thought it was a sculpin but our expert says it's a striped blenny. 

Moolah King Baby Island--one of four caissons off the old Con Ed power plant site north of Grand Street in Williamsburg. 

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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