MAY 15, 2015--NOAA has been asked to participate in a meeting of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Contaminated Sediment Technical Advisory Group (CSTAG) regarding the Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study of the Newtown Creek site on May 19 and 20, 2015.

Newtown Creek is a 3.5-mile long waterbody located between Queens and Brooklyn in New York City with a long history of contamination. Under the Superfund law, the site was added to the National Priorities List in 2010. The Natural Resource Trustees—NOAA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation—are conducting a natural resource damage assessment. NOAA will provide a short presentation to the CSTAG on the role of the federal trustees at the site on the first day of the meeting. More for information contact Reyhan.Mehran@noaa.gov. Go back to OR&R Weekly Report.