Hackensack Riverkeeper News Today

EAST RUTHERFORD (AFP) – He is not a lawyer, finance guy or a politician, but activist Bill Sheehan has moved mountains to clean up the Hackensack River in New Jersey just outside Manhattan, which for decades has been a dumping ground for industrial chemicals. Even still, the former taxi driver said, there is still so […]

Last weekend, a relatively small sailboat sailed into the metro area waterways to bring a different message: not might, but peace.

The longtime advocates to protect the Hackensack River watershed bought a Main Street office, with help from community donors

Tom Deignan profiles Irish Americans that work in environmental activism and justice, including Denis Hayes, Noreen Doyle, Maura Toomey, and Bill Sheehan.

The NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) held a hearing on sewer overflow improvements affecting North Bergen and Guttenberg.

Hackensack Riverkeeper, the citizen-steward of the Hackensack River Watershed, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the 2023

The agency settled with 85 firms responsible for PCBs, dioxin and other pollution in the riverbed. Work will cover 17 miles from Newark to Garfield.

Some residents rebuilt, elevating homes. Some left and never returned. New flood defenses have been installed. But storm surge remains a risk.

EPA officials have called an end to the groundwater cleanup at the Universal Oil Products site in East Rutherford. A final cleanup phase remains.

The plan calls for a 1,900-foot-long floodgate across the Hackensack River. Other proposed structures would protect New York Harbor.