Projects and Research
Every development project should make at least one environmental condition in its vicinity better and make none worse.
Please click the links below to read about all the projects that we have been involved in.
- Watersheds and MS4 Westchester County
- Comments to DEC/ACOE Permit on groundwater withdrawal discharged to Harlem River
- EJ report on Health Wealth and Education in the Bronx
- BCPGS Harlem River Working Group Calls to Action: Park Access and Park Justice
- Jerome Park Reservoir gets its voice
- Phase II Green Infrastructure and Short Circuits
- Jerome Park Reservoir Historic Preservation Documents
- Fordham Landing Study 2019
- 3.8.2019 Council Parks Budget Hearing Testimony
- 4.10.2019 Save the Date Learn about Nature’s Green Infrastructure & Water Affordablity
- 01.04.19 BCEQ Comments to NYSDEC on NYCDEP extension request to March 31, 2020
- Learn Up Workshop November 2018
- NYC CSO 101 Bronx Research Documents
- Living Shoreline Green Infrastructure Project
- East Bronx LearnUp to SpeakUp 12.6.2018
- Haven Project – release the funds
- President Bob’s Blog: 3 BODs on Bronx Power 50
- 11.14.2018 LearnUp to SpeakUp as Stewards of Our Water & Land
- WHEN PARKLAND IS NOT REALLY PARKLAND
- What is WRONG with this Project?
- OCA Pedestrian Bridge for Van Cortlandt Park 2018
- What does BCEQ do anyhow?
- 2018 Membership Meeting & Environmental Conference
- Pier 5 Update – BCEQ v City of NY Index #100240/2018
- 12.13.2017 Comments to NYC Council Committee on Environmental Protection on the City’s Wastewater Infrastructure
- The Public Trust Doctrine and Pier 5 aka Lower Concourse North aka Bronx Point
- BCEQ Comments on the Mayor’s proposal to take Pier 5
- Using Parkland to build Housing – only in the Bronx!!!
- Bronx Canoemobile 2015 October 23-31
- HR BOA Step 2 Steering Committee #4 on 072215
- Summer Associate through AmeriCorps VISTA – apply by 4/29/2015
- Pier 5 May 2014 Visit Urban Waters Federal Partners
- Pier 5 Pop Up Wetland Plants Clean the Harlem River
- City of Water Day in Your Neighborhood Mural of Pier 5 Cleaning Water
- BCEQ Statement on FreshDirect and the South Bronx
- From other pens… Fresh Direct: A Rotten Deal
- The Harlem River: Our River, Our Future! Your Choice: 3/22, 29 or 4/5
- Harlem River CB 1 – some public documents
- Fresh Direct Deal cuts the Harlem and Bronx Rivers Greenway
- BCEQ’s Comments on Fracking, 01.11.12
- Bronx: Meet Your Waterfront Plan
- Comments on CSO and Green Infrastructure 11.18.11
- BCEQ Mini Conference on Harlem River Project UPDATES, Wed. October 12, 2011
- BCEQ invites you to join us at the City of Water Day at Governor’s Island on July 16.
- Sensitive Receiving Waters – Designation for the Harlem and Bronx Rivers
- BCEQ Letter to the National Park Service on Yankee Stadium Park Replacement
- ALERT: Community Groups — Harlem River needs letter of support
- NYC DEP Minor Modification to the Croton Water Treatment Plant Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement of June 2004
- DEP changes position, Judge disposes of moot case, We win
- Harlem River Brownfiled Opportunity Area (BOA)
- NYC DEP is building the CWTP in Van Cortlandt Park
- Yankee Stadium Redevelopment
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We are working on this part of the site. To view the old files on each of the above project, click here.
RESEARCH – this is a new section which we will use for studies that others do on areas of concern. Some will be links, others will be downloads.
NEW BCEQ Harlem River Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Step 2 is FINAL
Below are two files which make up the whole report. Please read each of the files.
160304 HR BOA FINAL REPORT-Sect 1-3
160304 HR BOA FINAL REPORT Sect 4 & Appendix
Urban Land Institute did this report on University Heights:
http://newyork.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/University-Heights-TAP_FINAL.pdf
Pratt Institute and Trust for the Public Land did this visioning document:
Harlem River Greenway Visioning Plan Outside Brochure and Map of the Proposals Inside Map of Plan
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MIT did a great study on the Harlem River Waterfront: Bronx: Meet Your Waterfront Plan
http://issuu.com/bronx-studio/docs/bronx-waterfront-plan
Harlem River BOA study and report by BCEQ
http://www.bceq.org/2008/09/07/harlem-river-brownfiled-opportunity-area-boa/
Reclaiming the Riverfront study and power point by CB 7 and Columbia U Grad Students
Reclaiming the Riverfront Planning Report BX CB7 May 2010
Look for the Power Point to be uploaded soon! — one is the power point (large file 87 MB), the other is the pdf of it (medium file size 21 MB) which is zipped below:
Here is the zipped file — Restorying the Riverfront ppt May 2010
HRWG Power Point HRWG Complete Presentation
BP Power Point BxBPWaterFrontPresentationbrief
Harlem River Promenade (aka Depot Place) — Harlem River Promenade by Star Whitehouse (BOEDC)
ULURP the PUTNAM LINE into a GREENWAY
Here is the pdf of the proposal that is at CPC Dec 2010 —PutnamGreenway
Harlem River Yards Park and Greenway aka Stop FreshDirect
http://www.bceq.org/2012/02/28/harlem-river-cb-1-some-public-documents/
