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Sample Letters for testimony

Monday, June 19th, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

-------------- Please use your own words to describe where you live and how this may affect you or someone you know. Six Different Versions of a Sample letter / choose one Remove the wording in <brackets and italics> in the letter you choose. Download ...

9.7.2021 Press Release: Deegan flooding proves need to Daylight Tibbetts Brook

Monday, September 6th, 2021 Posted in Front Page News, Uncategorized | Comments Off

For Immediate Release Contact info is here 9.7.2021 Press Release: Deegan flooding proves need to Daylight Tibbetts Brook Tibbetts Brook Daylighted Itself The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) call for funding and construction of the Daylighting of Tibbetts Brook Project. While the Daylighting project ...

Daylighting Tibbetts Brook in the News

Monday, September 6th, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Daylighting Tibbetts Brook in the News https://bronxclimatejusticenorth.wordpress.com/daylighting-tibbetts-brook/ https://untappedcities.com/2016/02/24/tibbetts-brook-raising-a-stream-in-nyc/ https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/20/18150198/bronx-new-york-tibbetts-brook-daylighting-photo-essay https://vancortlandt.org/programs-overview/daylighting-tibbetts-brook/ https://hiddenwatersblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/bitibb/amp/

Ten lanes of the Major Deegan enough space for a big sponge

Monday, September 6th, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Ten lanes of the Major Deegan enough space for a big sponge: Excerpts from Conversation between Dart, Karen and Paul about stormwater capture. Karen: Found this photo of the ten lanes across the park for the Major Deegan. Dart: Maybe we can give ...

Interesting Photos and Data

Monday, August 9th, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

BCEQ Celebrates 50 years of Advocacy

Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

This year, we celebrate our 50 years of advocacy by spotlighting: The Birth of Green Infrastructure in the Bronx #2 The Promise and Potential of the Harlem River Greenway #1

Black Lives Matter message from BCEQ

Thursday, September 10th, 2020 Posted in Board Meetings, Front Page News, Membership Committee, Uncategorized | Comments Off

An Important Message from theBronx Council for Environmental Quality BLACK LIVES MATTER 50 years ago, the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality was created “to establish — as an Inherent Human Right — a sound, forward-looking environmental policy regarding an aesthetic, unpolluted, environment ...

BCEQ 50 years helping nature

Saturday, June 27th, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality will celebrate 50 years of volunteering to help nature survive in our County. We will list some of our programs and accomplishments here. Have an idea of what to say something? Email BCEQat50@bceq.org

BCEQ Votes to Oppose 3 day Festival on Parade Grounds

Sunday, January 12th, 2020 Posted in Committees, Front Page News, nyc, NYC Parks Department, Parks Committee, Permits, Uncategorized, Van Cortlandt Park | Comments Off

Recently we voted and then wrote BCEQ Letter Gov Ball 01.09.2020 The most serious impact of holding this large 3-day Festival in Van Cortlandt Park (VCP) is on the 46-acre Parade Ground (PG). Even if everything goes as planned, it is not ...

Your chance to Participate in Government

Monday, April 15th, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Participate in Government - Send Comments and/or Attend Meetings Save Wetlands - follow the Riverkeeper's letter writing campaign DUE BY 4/15/19 https://secure3.convio.net/river/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=567 The BIG WALL is coming. Come to the meeting that the Army Corps of Engineerings are holding - ...

Fort Independence Park into a Sponge Packet

Sunday, March 17th, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Help turn Fort Independence Park into a sponge! Enter the Park into Sponge Contest at parkintosponge@bceq.org with your name, phone, & affiliation or if it is school project, your professor/teacher. Provide a short description of your ideas and the method of your presentation. ...

BCEQ Celebrated City of Water Day during the Week

Friday, July 15th, 2016 Posted in Front Page News, Uncategorized | Comments Off

East Bronx Harbor Estuary Program (HEP), Long Island Sound Study (LISS), and Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) BCEQ Harlem & Hudson Rivers Meeting HEP Workshop, Harlem River Watershed Management Plan, Daylighting, and Monitoring Tibbetts Brook

Pier 5 Pop Up Wetland Monitoring and Photos — 072215

Friday, July 24th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Continued Discuss of the project based on the 2015 Harlem River Pier 5_USGS Some Photos Taken two years later

Support

Sunday, August 26th, 2012 Posted in Harlem River Working Group, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Participants (in formation): Bike the Bronx, Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, Bronx Health Reach, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, Con Edison, De La Salle Christian Brothers, Friends of Brook Park, Friends of Sherman Creek, Friends of the Woods, Gaia Institute, Harlem ...

Holiday Wishes and Thank You from President Joyce!

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

December 22, 2010 Dear BCEQ members and supporters! I take this opportunity to offer my fondest wishes for your holiday season! Thanks for all your support during the year and we do look forward to a productive 2011!! The happiest and healthiest of ...

In the NY Times, 11-18-09: Green Roofs and Walls

Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, In the News, Project Green, Uncategorized | Comments Off

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/business/energy-environment/19WALLS.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=edible%20walls&st=cse “We have 30 miles of rooftop in New York City and maybe 3,000 miles of walls,” said Paul Mankiewicz, the executive director of the Gaia Institute in New York. “It’s basically about maximizing the productivity per square foot.”

Comptroller Bill Thompson Audits DEP on CWTP, September 1, 2009

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Audit on the Department of Environmental Protection’s Progress in Constructing the Croton Water Treatment Plant FR08-121A9/1/2009 Department of Environmental Protection Audit Report on the Department of Environmental Protection’s Oversight of Costs to Construct the Croton Water Treatment Plant FR09-110A 9/1/2009 Department ...