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54 Hudson River municipalities have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator to urge the EPA to take actions that would place the Hudson River #PCBs Superfund Site on a real path to recovery. #PCB contamination has turned the Hudson River into the country’s largest Superfund site – making it unsafe to consume the river’s fish, shutting down its fishing industry, and compromising its ecological health. For generations. The letter unites municipalities and members of the Friends of a Clean Hudson coalition – a collaboration led by #Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, and Hudson River Sloop Clearwater – in urging #EPA to render a determination in its upcoming third five-year review that the Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup remedy is not protective of human health and the environment. The letter also calls on EPA to order a formal Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study for the Lower #Hudson, and demands that EPA adopt a cleanup remedy for the Upper #HudsonRiver floodplains. An effective cleanup of PCBs throughout the Hudson River is the only way to restore the River and the ecosystems that rely on it. Read more about PCBs https://ow.ly/w3uf50Qqnft and stay up to date with Friends of a Clean Hudson https://ow.ly/l8I750Qqnfu 💙

Running a successful fish farm requires careful management of many environmental factors to ensure the well-being and optimal growth of the fish. But how exactly can we do it? And why is it so important? https://hubs.ly/Q02g6R5Y0

The Hudson 7 meets this month on Wednesday, September 11 at 5pm. On the agenda includes a special presentation on the Hudson 7's Drinking Water Source Protection Program (DWSP2) plan that is nearly complete. In 2021, the Hudson 7 communities were selected to participate in the DWSP2, a locally led, state-supported program that empowers municipalities to take action to improve and protect their public water sources and surrounding environment. The program offers free technical assistance to develop and implement community-specific drinking water source protection plans. The effort is focused in part on defining different geographic areas that are relevant to different types of potential contamination concerns. Through the focus of the Hudson 7 on source water protection, we will continually refine understanding of the complexities related to potential contamination sources at different distances from our intakes. https://lnkd.in/eE7t9ZX3 Riverkeeper NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Tighe & Bond

Water stewardship is a journey - recently our partners at Waterplan (YC S21) published a case study where we describe some of the work we're doing together to improve Brown-Forman's water stewardship. https://lnkd.in/ehwiTGMm

What happens if you arrive to install a dam cover and find much less water in the dam than anticipated? We journeyed to the WA Wheatbelt town of Merredin and teamed up with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation for the Merredin Shire. Fitting dam covers on the Merredin No. 4 Dam might have been a challenge, but working hand in hand with the shire led us to finding a solution. Find out how it unfolded: https://bit.ly/3JL4Nli

What happens if you arrive to install a dam cover and find much less water in the dam than anticipated? We journeyed to the WA Wheatbelt town of Merredin and teamed up with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation for the Merredin Shire. Fitting dam covers on the Merredin No. 4 Dam might have been a challenge, but working hand in hand with the shire led us to finding a solution. Find out how it unfolded: https://bit.ly/3JL4Nli

Few programs have the kind of impact, much less recovery story as this program in Okanogan River Basin. The Fish and Water Management Tool was a completely different approach to fisheries management that flew in the face of the standard and often overused approach of simply raising more fish in raceways and circular ponds. FWMT is and remains out in front. Remember these fish travel almost 900 river km and pass 9 mainstem hydroelectric projects and have among the highest smolt to adult return ratios in the Columbia River Basin. This story ought to contribute more heavily to a dialogue and conversation that asks the question can anadromous salmonids and renewable, and firm hydroelectricity coexist with these culturally, environmentally, and economically invaluable fishes. #moreworktodo #successstory #pacificsalmonids #recovery

We are excited to share our latest publication in Environmental Management, titled “A Weight-of-Evidence Approach for Understanding the Recovery of Okanagan Sockeye Salmon.”  The paper disentangles the relative consequences of a set of environmental management actions that have been implemented to augment the Sockeye salmon freshwater productivity, while accounting for changes in freshwater and marine environmental conditions. One of the causal hypotheses explored includes the operationalization of the real-time Fish/Water Management Tool (FWMT; www.ok.fwmt.net), a decision-support system that was designed and implemented to improve the ability of front-line resource managers to deliver more fish friendly flows while balancing multiple objectives. Our study shows that the impressive Okanagan Sockeye salmon population recovery was a result of a series of management interventions and fortunate natural events that together brought this stock back from the brink. Collaboration lies at the heart of this achievement. The recovery of Okanagan Sockeye is a testament to the power of adaptive management, Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk), and deep, sustained partnerships. A special thanks to all who contributed, especially Okanagan Nation elders, leaders, knowledge keepers and others who have desired for over 100 years to re-establish a balanced ecosystem approach to water management for salmon. As the Okanagan people say, “kt cp’əlk’ stim’”— heal a river by "bringing it back". The Okanagan case provides hope for the stabilization and recovery of other Pacific salmon stocks when people come together, believe and persevere to uphold the optimistic view of what is possible when we give nature a chance. Read the full paper entitled "A Weight-of-Evidence Approach for Understanding the Recovery of Okanagan Sockeye Salmon" here: https://lnkd.in/g2JBsdZ7 Citation: Alexander, C.A.D., Alameddine, I., Machin, D. et al. A Weight-of-Evidence Approach for Understanding the Recovery of Okanagan Sockeye Salmon. Environmental Management (2024). https://lnkd.in/g2JBsdZ7 #SalmonRecovery #TwoEyedSeeing #Realtime #AdaptiveManagement #Collaboration #EnvironmentalResearch #ESSA

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has just announced plans to defile up to 9 of our illustrious State Parks with grossly incompatible development, including golf courses in the scrub of Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a 350-room lodge adjacent to the beach and dunes at Top Sail Hill Preserve State Park, and pickleball courts and a disk golf course in the mesic hammock of Hillsborough River State Park. The proposed unit management plan amendments and conceptual maps for each of the parks are available in our action alert at https://buff.ly/4dP9Gqm. It is difficult to comprehend the incompatibility and insensitivity of these proposals, and the process for conducting a public review is similarly outrageous. The FDEP announcement of these proposals was released on Tuesday the 20th – and the 8 one-hour public meetings to collect public comment will all be conducted concurrently NEXT TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. This is a stealth attack on our public lands. Information on the proposals for each of the 9 affected State Parks (Jonathan Dickinson, Hillsborough River, Honeymoon Island, Anastasia, Topsail Hill Preserve and Grayton Beach, Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson, Oleta River and Camp Helen State Parks), and meeting locations and times, are all available using the links provided below. If one of these Parks is especially important to you, or if you live near one of these meeting locations and can plan to be present, PLEASE ATTEND and speak in defense of our entire State Park system. Because if state officials are allowed to get away with this kind of development in these parks, they will not stop there. **Visit https://buff.ly/4dP9Gqm for the specific times and locations for each of these public meetings, or email info@fnps.org.** We will continue to oppose these proposals until they have been withdrawn. Stay tuned for a follow-up alert that will launch the next stage of our opposition.

Visiting various water utility companies is always a valuable experience. Observing how they monitor water quality firsthand provides the best insights into how we can support their efforts.