From: U.S. EPA <usaepa@service.govdelivery.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Subject: News Release: New York Organizations Use EPA Grants to Monitor Water Pollution in their Communities; EPA Launches Equipment Loan Program to Help Community Organizations Collect Environmental Data
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New York Organizations Use EPA Grants to Monitor Water Pollution in their Communities EPA Launches Equipment Loan Program to Help Community Organizations Collect Environmental Data
Contact: John Martin, (212) 637-3662, martin.johnj@epa.gov
(New York, N.Y. – August 15, 2014) With support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "citizen science" grants, two New York community groups have begun their final weeks of summer water pollution monitoring. The Bronx River Alliance and the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance have been using $25,000 grants to monitor water quality on tributaries of the New York/New Jersey Harbor. The groups are testing for the bacteria Enterococcus, which indicates the presence of fecal contamination, and are also measuring general water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen, pH, and temperature. Sampling concludes in late August.
Equipment used by The Bronx River Alliance and the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance is part of the EPA's new equipment loan program. Sampling and laboratory equipment is often the most expensive part of a monitoring program. Through this initiative, citizen science groups will be able to collect data in their own communities with fewer up-front costs. By lending this equipment to eligible community groups, the EPA hopes to allow more citizen scientists the opportunity to collect high quality data and increase environmental stewardship in their community.
For more information on Citizen Science, visit: http://epa.gov/region2/citizenscience.
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Jeremy Tobias Matthews
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