CFE Sues Danbury for Sewage Pollution
The City of Danbury has been releasing raw sewage and other chemicals into local waterbodies for more than five years.
Category: Sewage & Stormwater
Your Legal Watchdogs
With your support, we’re fighting to stop water pollution in our rivers and the Sound and to protect precious landscapes and wildlife habitat. Here’s the latest news on just a few of our most critical projects. Saving Plum Island CFE/Save the Sound and six other organizations and individuals filed suit in July against the Department of […]
Green Infrastructure in New Haven: Bioswales and the West River
the Edgewood School bioswale is boosting the ecosystem’s resilience while improving the West River’s water quality.
Tigers and Rivers and Rain Gardens, Oh My! Green Infrastructure on the Pequonnock River
It’s World Water Week 2016 and thought leaders from around the world are gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, for the annual collaborative water conference. Designed as a place for innovators and decision makers to share ideas and develop solutions to the world’s water-related challenges, this year’s conference focuses on water for sustainable growth. Each year, our […]
Sewage pollution in Westchester demands legal action
We hoped it wouldn’t come to this. But Long Island Sound can’t wait any longer.
New Yorkers: Sign Up for Sewage Overflow Alerts
Did you know sewage overflows have likely happened in your community? To find out when and where future overflows occur, sign up for text, emails or phone alerts from NY-ALERT (sign-up instructions below).
Hands in the ground: help us build a rain garden
Have you ever wanted to create a Rain Garden, but don’t know how? Now is your chance to learn!
99 sewage spills. Where do they come from?
There have been 99 documented sewage spills in Westchester since 2010…and still counting.