Organochlorines in New York and the Hudson River: Sources, Environmental Distribution, and Health Risks

Community Outreach

Resources

Brochures and Factsheets

• An Introduction to the Mount Sinai Superfund Basic Research Program
• Glossary of Hudson River Contaminants
• What are PCBs?
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Hudson River Pollution: Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs)
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Hudson River Pollution: Methylmercury
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Hudson River Pollution: Understanding Superfund
• Local Hudson River Fish Advisory
• Safe Fish Consumption: Commercial Fish

Newsletters

• Winter 2004/2005
• Spring/Summer 2005

Scientific Articles

• Claudio L. The Hudson River: A River Runs through an Environmental Controversy. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002, 110(4): 184-187
• PCBs in the Upper Hudson River: The science behind the dredging controversy. Paper coauthored by SBRP scientist Richard Bopp, Ph.D., for the Hudson River Foundation.

Government Agencies

• EPA Hudson River Field Office
  421 Lower Main Street
  Hudson Falls, NY 12839
  Tel: (518) 747-4389
  Tel (toll-free): (866) 615-6490
  E-mail: hrfo@capital.net
• The Hudson River Estuary Program
  NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Region 3
  21 South Putt Corners Road
  New Paltz, New York 12561
  Tel: (845) 256-3016
  Fax: (845) 255-3649
  E-mail: hrep@gw.dec.state.ny.us

Community-Based Organizations

• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
  112 Little Market Street
  Poughkeepsie, NY 1260
  Tel: (845) 454-7673
  Web Site: www.clearwater.org
• Riverkeeper
  PO Box 130
  Garrison, NY 10524
  Tel: (800) 21-RIVER
  E-mail: info@riverkeeper.org
  Web Site: www.riverkeeper.org
• Scenic Hudson, Inc.
  One Civic Center Plaza, Suite 200
  Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
  Tel: (845) 473-4440
  E-mail: info@scenichudson.org
• The River Project
  Pier 26, North River
  New York, NY 10013
  Tel: (212) 431-5787
  Fax: (212) 941-5524
  Web Site: www.riverproject.org
• The Hudson River Foundation
  17 Battery Place, Suite 915
  New York, NY 10004
  Tel: (212) HUDSONR
  Fax: (212) 924-8325
  Web Site: www.hudsonriver.org
• Hudson Basin River Watch (HBRW)
  3570 Route 29
  East Greenwich, NY 12865
  Tel: (518) 677-5029
  E-mail: reed@netheaven.com
  Web Site: www.hudsonbasin.org
  

Hudson River/Superfund Web sites

• EPA Superfund
  www.epa.gov/superfund
• EPA Hudson River
  www.epa.gov/hudson
• New York State Hudson River
  www.dec.state.ny.us/website/hudson
• General Electric's Hudson River PCB Web site
  www.hudsonvoice.com
• Hudson River Superfund Site Community Advisory Group (CAG)
  www.hudsoncag.ene.com/default.htm
• Rivers and Estuaries Center
  www.riversandestuaries.org
• Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities
  environmentalconsortium.org/consortium.htm
• Hudson River Fisherman's Association
  www.hrfanj.org
• Hudson River Environmental Society
  www2.marist.edu/~en04/

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