The Hudson River Food Corridor Initiative is eligible for funding as Part of America’s Marine Highway Program. Click here to read more about this initiative that will evaluate the feasibility of an alternate means of transporting fresh produce from agricultural regions in North-Central New York near the Hudson River and Long Island to the New York-Newark Metropolitan Area via water.
Flux Quartet playing at Bargemusic on Brooklyn waterfront.
Summer used to be an off time for classical music and jazz. Now, the summer festivals that dot America’s countryside between June and Labor Day are cornerstones of the musical year. Many jazz musicians earn half or more of their incomes at summer fests. Read More
In support of the goal of the Hudson Fulton Champlain Quadricentennial Commission to advance a vision and practical agenda for the Hudson Valley, this project is sponsored by the Hudson River Watershed Alliance, a regional coalition of stakeholders working to protect, restore, and conserve the water resources of the Hudson and its tributaries, through information sharing and collaborative networking.
Panel Urges Hudson Cleanup Be Improved and Extended
From the New York Times:
A cleanup of toxic chemicals in the Hudson River has failed to consistently meet performance standards and needs to undergo “substantive changes” in its next phase, a panel of independent scientists said in a draft report released on Monday.
The panel, convened by the Environmental Protection Agency, also recommended that the second phase, scheduled to start in May 2011 and to last five years, be allowed to be extended to provide more flexibility. Officials with the E.P.A., which is overseeing the dredging by the General Electric Company under the Superfund program, estimate that the project may take 7 to 10 years, rather than the 6 years originally anticipated.
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