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Since 2015, Sarah Lawrence College’s Center for the Urban River at Beczak, or CURB, has been monitoring and conducting research on sewage contamination in the Saw Mill and Hudson Rivers with a host of partners and community scientist volunteers. “Twenty-two municipalities in suburban Westchester now pipe their sewage alongside the Saw Mill River watershed for treatment in Yonkers,” said Ryan Palmer, the director of CURB in a lohud story on the efforts to clean up the Saw Mill River. “As much as we as a society appreciate water, we’ve also really just not been nice to these rivers for a very long time.”
Read the full story and learn about CURB’s water quality and monitoring program.