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	Newtown Creek Area Page
		Newtown Creek is a tributary of the East River and is located in the northwest section of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
		The Newtown Creek study area begins at the westernmost neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Hunters Point where the creek enters the East River and south of the Long Island Expressway (U.S. Interstate 495) to East Williamsburg north of Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn at English Kills.
		The creek is generally oriented in an east-west direction, however, the easternmost section of the creek flows south to north.
	www.hydroqual.com /projects/usa/NewtownCr_AreaPg.html (269 words)

	Newtown Creek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newtown Creek is a tributary of the East River, approximately 3.5 miles in length.
		Before the urbanization and industrialization of the surrounding neighborhoods, Newtown Creek was a longer and wider waterway, wide enough that it contained islands.
		Newtown Creek is crossed by the Pulaski Bridge, the J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newtown_Creek (179 words)

	Newtown Creek Alliance - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The creek was preserved in local lore nearly from the outset, as the infamous Captain Kidd was said to have buried treasure on a friend's waterfront property.
		The Creek was widened and deepened to accommodate bigger barges.
		By 1889 the New York Times cited the degradation of the creek and in 1891 the Brooklyn "Smelling Committee" voted it one of New York City's smelliest places citing the "heaps of rotting flesh from [the] meat factory." Newtown Creek's pollution problems were merely beginning.
	www.newtowncreek.org /history.html (845 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Newtown Creek main channel extends from the East River to its terminus at the East Branch segment at Metropolitan Avenue on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.
		This segment of Newtown Creek is unique in that it is not intended for navigation and there are areas where the shoreline is not hardened and vertical.
		Restoration opportunities in Newtown Creek include sediment removal to improve dissolved oxygen levels, enhance benthic habitat, and reduce odors; wetland restoration; shoreline softening; and rounding of sharp angles to increase circulation and reduce sedimentation.
	www.hudsonraritanrestoration.org /sites/ste-newt.htm (507 words)

	AZABOT GROUP :: Newtown Creek 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Written by Chris B. Newtown Creek is an estuary leading from the East River and it is a natural border between the borders of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
		The creek is very polluted and the orange booms, which are supposedly made to contain the oil, are leaking.
		She is involved with the lawsuits involving Newtown Creek and sometimes patrols the creek looking for industrial seepage and polluters.
	azabot.blog.com /79954 (798 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Newtown Creek
		The creek was part of a boundary dispute from the mid- 1600's to the mid-1700's between Bushwick and Newtown, the precursors to Brooklyn and Queens.
		By the 1850's, the creek was an industrial center that both fueled and paralleled the explosive growth of New York.
		Despite being long past its prime as a shipping hub, Newtown Creek, which forms the northern border between Brooklyn and Queens, is a 4.3-mile waterborne theme park for the remnants of industrial abuse.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2889 (1807 words)

	Newtown Isle of Wight
		Newtown is an ancient town on the north west coast of the Island, it is now a shadow of its former self being a hamlet with virtually no facilities.
		By the early fourteenth century, Newtown was a thriving community; some sixty families lived there, and in 1344 the borough was assessed at twice the value of Newport.
		Newtown is said to have been sacked by the Danes in 1001, and certainly it suffered a number of attacks by the French at later dates, the most disastrous being in 1377 when much of the town was burnt.
	www.claudette.shalfleet.net /shalfleet/newtown.htm (1063 words)

	P.O.V.'s Borders . Environment . Water . The Invisible Creek \| PBS
		The Newtown Creek is a murky estuary that runs 3 1/2 industrialized miles along the border of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens.
		Newtown Creek has been given the lowest possible cleanliness rating by both New York City and New York State.
		Learn about the amazing history of the creek and meet the group of inner city kids who have reclaimed it as a playground for their boat building and nature explorations.
	www.pbs.org /pov/borders/2004/water/water_creek.html (771 words)

	AZABOT GROUP :: Newtown Creek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Newtown Creek is an industrial area, it is adjacent to a residential area known as Greenpoint, Brooklyn and flows into the East River.
		In the case of the Newtown Creek spill, not all of the oil in the spill belonged to Exxon Mobil.
		The Newtown Creek incident, was 150%, or 1.5 times larger, but the media attention is restricted to the small town located on the creek, where it is still not very great, and it has kept on expanding for over thirty years.
	azabot.blog.com /Newtown+Creek (4946 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - FACET ENTERPRISES, ELMIRA, CHEMUNG COUNTY, NEW YORK
		The Facet facility is one of several industrial facilities and landfills in the Newtown Valley shown to have contributed to contamination of the Newtown Creek Aquifer with trichloroethene (TCE).
		The Newtown Creek Aquifer is used as a potable water source by the City of Elmira and the Town of Horseheads.
		The Newtown Creek is a tributary of the Chemung River.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/facet/fac_p1.html (4675 words)

	Stream Report - Indian Creek
		Newtown Creek is a tributary to Neshaminy Creek in the Delaware River drainage.
		Newtown Creek supports a simple benthic macroinvertebrate population dominated by a number of pollution-tolerant genera.
		Newtown Creek will also be designated Migratory Fishes (MF) since Newtown Creek is an unimpeded tributary to Neshaminy Creek, which is designated MF.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/deputate/watermgt/Wqp/WQStandards/StreamStatus/NewtownCreek.htm (759 words)

	Newtown LI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A map appears with Riker's Annals of Newtown which shows the district lying to the north of Newtown Creek which in turn is north of today's Williamsburgh and Brooklyn.
		Newtown fell in Queens County, and Breukelen was in Kings, where they both remain today.
		The Newtown patent is now the Maspeth and Long Island City district from the Sound down to Newtown Creek, and the village of Newtown is now called Elmhurst.
	home.att.net /~williamgreenhouse/info/newtown.html (265 words)

	Oil Spills in the Middle of New York
		NEW YORK - There are good days and bad days at Newtown Creek, a 2.4-km waterway dividing the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City that also carries the dubious distinction of being the most polluted in the country.
		"Newtown Creek is our backyard," said Lim, head instructor at the Apprenticeshop, which teaches conservation and leadership to New York youth through boat building and seamanship training.
		The Newtown accumulated spill is half again as large as the notorious 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, for which the company was fined 150 million dollars.
	www.tierramerica.net /english/2004/0522/iacentos.shtml (912 words)

	From Smelling Committee to Newtown Creek Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Newtown Creek runs along the northern border of Brooklyn and separates it from Queens.
		Known as the Newtown Creek Alliance, the organization was founded by Councilmembers Eric Gioia of Queens and David Yassky of Brooklyn, Riverkeeper, and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance to bring elected and government officials, citywide nonprofits, and community organizations together to deal with the significant challenges the creek presents.
		The bright green, foul-smelling water of Newtown Creek stagnates as it flows west for three-and-a-half miles to the East River, preventing nearby residents in Greenpoint and Long Island City from enjoying this secret stretch of waterfront.
	www.nylcv.org /ecopolitics/archive/2004/spring2004/articles/22.htm (376 words)

	Water Technology - Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant Expansion and Upgrade, New York, NY
		The largest of the 14 wastewater treatment plants in New York City, Newtown Creek is currently undergoing a major expansion and upgrade intended to increase its capacity by 50% and extend secondary treatment to all its inflow, ahead of a 2007 deadline.
		This contract, valued at $493 million, is one of many that have been awarded as part of a massive 13-year program, costing an estimated $2.2 billion, to enable Newtown Creek to achieve compliance with the requirements mandated by the federal Clean Water Act.
		With a rated capacity of 1.2 million m³/d, this is New York City's largest wastewater pump station and serves an area of 4,162 acres of land, fed by 180 miles of sewers.
	www.water-technology.net /projects/newtown (1126 words)

	Newtown Creek
		Newtown is only a short step away from a total environmental breakdown when water oxygen levels drop below that needed to sustain marine life.
		Newtown being no exception, not only have numbers increased but during the last few years yachts and power craft have grown larger and correspondingly carry many more people.
		A theory, not tested, has been that the regular flushing of the water by the tide is sufficient to keep Newtown, or other harbour's clean, in fact the nitrate pollution is not going away, this pollution is spreading to adjoining waters, it is residing in the harbour mud and shoreline, it continues to increase.
	www.kyteweb.net /newtowncreek/index.htm (751 words)

	Newtown Creek Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Newtown Creek Alliance is an organization dedicated to cleaning up and preserving Newtown Creek, the waterway that serves as the border between Brooklyn and Queens.
		Newtown Creek is now stagnant, polluted, and inaccessible, but we hope to make it suitable again for public access, recreation, and use by the working waterfront.
		Founded by City Council Members David Yassky and Eric Gioia, Riverkeeper, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, and the East River Apprentice Shop, the Newtown Creek Alliance includes members of the community, citywide advocacy groups, creekside businesses, and local elected officials.
	www.newtowncreek.org (99 words)

	6 Newtown Creek Street Ends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Newtown Creek is a tidal inlet of the East River that extends for 3.5 miles inland between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
		Newtown Creek has a long industrial history and once had as many as 50 oil refineries lining the shore.
		Newtown Creek is still one of New York City’s major industrial zones, its shores hosting myriad manufacturing, wholesale, distribution and municipal uses.
	www.nylcv.org /Programs/WPC/blueprint/boroughs/queens/pages/6_newtown (327 words)

	The East River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As the waterway leading to this area, Newtown Creek soon became befouled with all sorts of contaminants.
		At the same time, the traffic on the Creek increased steadily until, at the beginning of the 20th century, it carried as much traffic as the Mississippi River.
		The noxious industries are long gone, but the Creek was so polluted by them that, even today, oil blobs filled with methane gas from decaying matter float to the surface.
	www.eastrivernyc.org /ecommerce/ecreek.shtm (195 words)

	Newtown Creek Virtual Tour @ OldNYC.com
		The Newtown Creek tour was organized by Bernard Ente, and included tour guide Bob Singleton, the president of the Greater Astoria Historical Society and a Newton Creek expert.
		Before the waterway was discovered by explorers, the area in and around Newtown Creek was scenic and bucolic, with rolling hills covered with trees.
		Once the settlers started to occupy the land, the creek provided a natural dividing line between various properties, and it was used in conjunction with roads to transport farmers produce to the various markets.
	www.oldnyc.com /newtown_creek/lic_lirr/lic_lirr_1.html (650 words)

	Queens Chronicle - Mid Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rainbow sheen on Newtown Creek is not caused by boats: it’s an underground oil spill that seeped from ExxonMobil tanks in the 1940s and ’50s.
		Environmental advocates for Newtown Creek, the waterway separating Sunnyside and Maspeth from Brooklyn, announced plans on Monday to sue several major oil companies that they claim are responsible for polluting the area with one of the world’s largest underground oil spills.
		“The creek is constantly covered with a sheen of oil, in some cases extending hundreds of yards downstream,” said Basil Seggos, investigator and coordinator of the Newtown Creek Initiative.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1864&dept_id=152800&newsid=10888112&PAG=461&rfi=9 (793 words)

	Water Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Approximately 20 percent of the plant effluent is discharged to Whale Creek and 80 percent is discharged to the East River via the India Street Outfall.
		The wastewater effluent from the Newtown Creek WPCP in its current and future state of treatment can potentially be further treated to produce high-quality demineralized water for producing steam or for other plant flows.
		The water treatment equipment would take the Newtown Creek WPCP effluent and treat the water to steam source water quality (meeting the Con Edison steam water quality requirements) utilizing advanced treatment techniques such as microfiltration followed by reverse osmosis and other treatment steps as necessary.
	transgasenergy.com /psshtml/15.0WATERRESOURCES.htm (3108 words)

	Riverkeeper.org, Pollution, Newtown Creek Pollution Enforcement Initiative
		The condition of the creek was shocking, even for an industrialized urban waterway.
		A tidal tributary of the East River, Newtown Creek is one of the most polluted and neglected waterways in North America.
		Riverkeeper is also one of the founding groups of the Newtown Creek Alliance, an association of environmental groups, businesses, concerned citizens, and elected officials.
	www.riverkeeper.org /campaign.php/pollution/we_are_doing/781 (466 words)

	neshaminy
		The Neshaminy Creek watershed occupies an area of 233 square miles; 86% is in central and lower Bucks County and 14% is in Montgomery County.
		Core Creek and the upper reaches of Mill Creek are classifies as a Cold Water Fishery, and the main stem above Dark Hollow is classified as a Trout Stocking Fishery (Neshaminy Creek-Use Impairment Survey, p2).
		Nitrate readings at Neshaminy Creek are within an acceptable water quality range and are the lowest of any neighboring streams monitored by Riverkeeper volunteers during this sampling period.
	www.delawareriverkeeper.org /factsheets/neshaminy.html (1812 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		He takes high school students on tours of the waterway, to ”show them what's beautiful about it, but also to teach them about the pollution and conservation.” ”Newtown Creek is our backyard,” said Lim, head instructor at the Apprenticeshop, which teaches conservation and leadership to New York youth through boat building and seamanship training.
		”The creek is covered with a sheen of oil 365 days a year.” And oil is not the only problem.
		It was perhaps premonition that led the area's indigenous groups to name the creek Maspeth, which means ”in the bad water place.” As for why so little attention has been paid to the area, Seggos believes it's a simple matter of David versus Goliath.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=23956 (812 words)

	Encyclopedia: Newtown Creek
		World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Eurasia and Africa.
		Newtown Creek is crossed by the Pulaski Bridge, the J. Byrne Memorial Bridge, and the Kosciuszko Bridge.
		The Pulaski Bridge in New York City connects Long Island City in Queens to Greenpoint in Brooklyn over Newtown Creek.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Newtown-Creek (406 words)

	AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Shootout at Newtown Creek
		So when she drives her car down a semi-paved street that dead-ends 12 feet above the flened waters of Newtown Creek, the waterway that separates Greenpoint from Long Island City, it's hard not to notice the awe.
		At the same time, Vance and other rezoning advocates fear the psychological impact of adding a power plant to a neighborhood that is already dealing with the expansion of the Newtown Creek sewage treatment facility.
		Soon to be the city's largest, the plant and its many odors have already prompted grumbles over residents on one side of the neighborhood selling out their poorer neighbors on the other.
	www.alternet.org /envirohealth/17048 (1724 words)

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