Tuesday, April 21, 2015

BCEQ's April ENewsletter, Happy Earth Day!



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April 2015 Enewsletter
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In honor of Earth Day, Bronx Council of Environmental Quality is
launching a brand new monthly enewsletter to keep you up to 
date on important environmental issues affecting the Bronx.  
Whether you are planting a tree, going for a hike, cleaning up 
your favorite green space this Earth Day please save some 
time to read about BCEQ has been up to and other important 
topics you should know about.


BCEQ Water Conference 2015
The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality held its annual 
membership meeting and water conference — Going 
from Step 2 to Designating a Brownfield Opportunity Area: 
Should BCEQ Harlem River BOA Step 2 project apply?” – on 
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at Manhattan College.  If you 
missed this successful conference you can still check out the 

NYC’s Direct Discharge Pollution Plan
Sometimes noted as MS4, the Direct Discharge Pollution 
Plan is the way the city handles direct stormwater discharges 
into our waterbodies. The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality 
comments on the 2015 amended plan, which is still not good enough.

BCEQ is Hiring a Summer Associate
BCEQ is currently looking to hire a Summer Associate through 
the Conservation Legacy VISTA Program.  There are two projects 
that the summer associate will be involved in: the annual 
"Canoeing the Harlem" event, and the new local high school based 
research project "Characterizing the Harlem" research project. There 
is also a very large historic event – the opening of the High Bridge – 
which the summer associate will have an opportunity to work on.  
The dates of service are June 1st to August 3rd.  For more information
 please email Phoebe Mankiewicz at psmankiewicz@gmail.com.

This Summer the High Bridge is Reopening
NYC Parks is currently planning to reopen the High Bridge on 
July 25th, 2015!  They are looking for the community to get involved
by planning events to Celebrate the High Bridge throughout the 

Based on a widely republished New Yorker essay by best-selling 
novelist Jonathan Franzen, Emptying the Skies exposes the rampant 
poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.


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