Announcements

There will be a VIRTUAL Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. An agenda and more information will follow in the coming days. We will be using the videoconferencing platform Zoom for our upcoming meeting. The information to join the Zoom on April 15th is pasted at the end of this message. If this is your first time using Zoom, you will be prompted you to Read more

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, February 19, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39 Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104. Meeting Agenda All CAG members, residents, agencies, and others welcome for the first portion of the meeting 6:30   Introduction and agenda review  6:40   Brief Site Updates  EPA shares updates and activity on the site since November 2019 6:50   2020 CAG Work Planning Preview of Work Ahead in 2020, Read more

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, February 19, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39 Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104. Meeting Agenda All CAG members, residents, agencies, and others welcome for the first portion of the meeting 6:30   Introduction and agenda review  6:40   Brief Site Updates  EPA shares updates and activity on the site since November 2019 6:50   2020 CAG Work Planning Preview of Work Ahead in 2020, Read more

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, January 22, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. This meeting will be focused on preparing and refining CAG comments to submit to EPA on its proposed plan for OU2 (regarding the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflows into the Creek.) Meeting Agenda 6:30   Introduction and agenda review  6:40   Review of CAG Comments Read more

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, January 22, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. This meeting will be focused on preparing and refining CAG comments to submit to EPA on its proposed plan for OU2 (regarding the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflows into the Creek.) Meeting Agenda 6:30   Introduction and agenda review  6:40   Review of CAG Comments Read more

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, January 8, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. This meeting will be focused on preparing and refining CAG comments to submit to EPA on its proposed plan for OU2 (regarding the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflows into the Creek.)

There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, January 8, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. This meeting will be focused on preparing and refining CAG comments to submit to EPA on its proposed plan for OU2 (regarding the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflows into the Creek.)

The CAG meeting planned for this Wednesday, January 8 has been POSTPONED. We hope to have a new date scheduled soon — stay tuned. Thank you.

Save the date! There will be a Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting Wednesday, January 8, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. This meeting will be focused on preparing CAG comments on EPA’s proposed plan for OU2 (regarding the long-term control plan for combined sewer overflows into the Creek.) Venue to be announced.

EPA has posted a proposed plan for operable unit 2 (OU2), identifying a preferred alternative for addressing releases of chemicals of potential concern (COPCs) from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) into the Creek. EPA will be holding two public meetings to explain the Proposed Plan and all of the alternatives presented in the Focused Feasibility Study. Oral and written comments will also be accepted at the meetings. The meetings will be held at the following times Read more