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MIT did a great study on the Harlem River Waterfront:  Bronx:  Meet Your Waterfront Plan

http://bronx.mit.edu/meet-your-waterfront-plan

Green Infrastructure (GI) has to be incorporated into the Long Term Control Plans in a meaning and measurablemanner. While this plan goes a long way toward that goal, there is no need for additional planning for incorporation of GIwhile the Long Term Control Plans (LTCPs) are being developed. Just do it; it is already widely accepted all over thecountry and by EPA.

Read more here

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Harlem River Working Group
Celebrate the Harlem River

HRWG is online

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Chauncy Young: 646-719-0034

Press Advisory

Community residents, environmental organizations and elected officials meet with United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to discussion the Urban Waters Partnership and collaborative efforts to revitalize the Harlem River

(Bronx NY, October 27, 2011) Community residents and environmental organizations will gather at Roberto Clemente State Park — the only Bronx State park, located along the Harlem River to welcome Secretary Ken Salazar and celebrate the Harlem River.

“The Harlem River is a wonderful asset. We are excited to welcome the Secretary to witness our hard work in the rebirth of the Harlem River,” stated Anita Antonetty, long time community resident and Harlem River Working Group Member.

Community residents, environmental organizations and elected officials will hold a press conference at 2:00 pm in support of Secretary Salazar announcement of Urban Waters Partnership and America’s Great Outdoors – both national initiatives taking place across the nation and in the Bronx. Other federal, state and city agencies are expected to attend, as are local Bronx elected officials: Borough President Ruben Diaz, Congressman Jose Serrano, State Senator Marco Serrano, and State Assemblywoman Vanessa L. Gibson, among others. Together, this local perspective recognizes the community’s renaissance vision for a greenway and waterfront access for Bronx communities along Harlem River.

“I have been a part of planning meetings for the Harlem River and the surrounding area for the last 30 years” says Dart Westphal, community leader and Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) Board Member, “I am glad to be a member of the Harlem River Working Group and to see plans long discussed finally being implemented due to the collaboration between city, state and federal elected officials and departments, particularly, the NYC Parks Department, and community residents.”

Harlem River Working Group Coordinator, Chauncy Young, notes “Over the past four years since the formation of the Harlem River Working Group, we have been effective in making the Harlem River a focus for community residents and their representatives and government agencies, the Harlem River was designated as one of seven locations across the United States designated for the new Urban Waters Federal Partnership and both Massachusetts Institute for Technology and Columbia University have worked with community members to develop visions for the Harlem River Waterfront.”

Community members will be available for comments on local perspectives following the press event.

Date: Friday October 28, 2011

Time:   2:00 pm

Location: Roberto Clemente State Park, 301 West Tremont Avenue, Bronx NY 10453

The Fracking Industry’s War On TheNew York Times — And The Truth

10/20/11, Robert Kennedy, President, Waterkeeper Alliance; Professor, Pace University

Superb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought the paper under attack by the natural gas industry. That campaign of intimidation and obfuscation has been orchestrated by top shelf players like Exxon and Chesapeake aligned with the industry’s worst bottom feeders. This coalition has launched an impressive propaganda effort carried by slick PR firms, industry funded front groups and a predictable cabal of right wing industry toadies from cable TV and talk radio. In pitting itself against public disclosure and reasonable regulation, the natural gas industry is once again proving that it is its own worst enemy.

For the rest of the story:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fracking-natural-gas-new-york-times-_b_1022337.html

SGEIS and Proposed Regulations Public Hearing (NYC- Afternoon)
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Public hearing on DEC’s draft SGEIS and proposed regulations for high-volume hydraulic fracturing, used for gas drilling in Marcellus Shale and other areas of the State.

SGEIS and Proposed Regulations Public Hearing (NYC- Evening)
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Public hearing on DEC’s draft SGEIS and proposed regulations for high-volume hydraulic fracturing, used for gas drilling in Marcellus Shale and other areas of the State.
For info on the SGEIS and Regulations, see:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/77499.html

NEW: For copies of documents and the GEIS: (big document be careful)

http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/75370.html

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JOIN OUR PLANNING MEETINGS

The Bronx shore of the Harlem River is

experiencing lots of exciting changes! Come

learn all about them and how you can get involved.

WHERE:

Roberto Clemente State Park Recreation Center

301 West Tremont Avenue at Mattewson Road

By Train: Hudson Line MetroNorth stop at Morris Heights Station

By Bus: Bx18, Bx40, Bx42 (170th St) to River Park Towers and

Roberto Clemente State Park Bridge.

Walk down the ramp to the park.

WHEN:

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

WHAT:

This event is the monthly BCEQ Board Meeting and an extension of the BCEQ Annual Water Conference — this past spring was held on the East Bronx Rivers. We are holding a mini conference on the Harlem River to get updates on all the projects and proposals along the Bronx side of the River.

Sponsored by the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, the Harlem River Working Group, and Con Edison.  Special Thanks to Roberto Clemente State Park and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

For more information and to RSVP contact harlemriver@bceq.org or

call (646) 462-4132

BCEQ will have a table at the City of Water Day event on Governor’s Island on July 16.

We want to offer an opportunity for other Bronx Groups to get their messages out.  So if any of you have a flier or brochure you would like us to display, e-mail rsvp@bceq.org and we will figure out how you can get it to us.

The Harlem River Working Group will be there along with…..from the Bronx
and we want to make sure the Bronx is as well represented as possible.

Thanks
BCEQ Water Committee

Harlem River Working Group applies for the River Network Urban Waters Capacity Building Grant.

The goal of the Urban Waters Capacity-Building Grants is to improve our nation’s impaired urban water resources – rivers, lakes, wetlands and more – and the socioeconomically challenged communities around them by providing local organizations, tribal and local governments with the skills and techniques to effectively restore these resources over time.

The Harlem River Working Group has applied, through the Highbridge Community Life Center (HCLC) and the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ).  Here is the application:

1. Executive Summary UrbanWatersExecutiveSummary 2.  Application HRWGUrban WatersFinal

Attachments
A. Budget   urbanwater_budget_template
B.  Maps River Location: open_water_section_3 p14, and Harlem River Target areas:  map above and
C.  List of Partner Organizations: Attachment C List of Partners
D.  Biographies: Biographies Harlem River Working Group
E.  Board of Directors – supplied for both HCLC and BCEQ