Indian Point will conduct security demonstrations for its employees Wednesday with simulated weaponry, so nuclear plant officials are reminding the public that gunshot sounds and other loud noises may occur throughout the day.
“We are taking steps to notify the public now about these events so there is no undue alarm caused by what they may [...]

NEW CITY – Folks in the middle of Rockland’s county seat Friday were still reacting to an Indian Point siren test that for the first time warned them in a booming voice that there was an emergency.
A mechanical voice blaring “Emergency! Emergency! Emergency!” raised everyone’s blood pressure at nearby Rockland Auto Repair until workers were [...]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – New York volunteers in Westchester County will be monitoring the health of local streams as part of World Water Monitoring Day today.
Residents have been volunteering to check water throughout the county since 2003. The citizens group plans to sample water at 20 sites countywide today and Saturday.

The information they collect [...]

The cleanup of benzene and other chemicals at Pelham Plaza basically got a sign-off from state regulators Wednesday, basically clearing the way for the 20-acre site to return to full use.
The site was home to a manufactured gas plant from the 1800s to 1951, converting coal and petroleum to gas for cooking and heating.
Contamination from [...]

Tilcon New York and state regulators have settled a Hudson River pollution case, with the quarry company agreeing to pay a $250,000 penalty and donate $100,000 to Clearwater to fund environmental education programs.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis announced the settlement today at a Verplanck marina, with the sloop floating nearby [...]

The Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public hearing tonight to review environmental impacts of cleaning up PCB contamination at Davids Island.
The meeting runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at New Rochelle City Hall (Conference Room B1), 90 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle.
Davids Island is an 80-acre island in the Long Island Sound off [...]

More than 10 percent of the 172 emergency sirens within 10 miles of Indian Point failed to work properly during a quarterly test of the alert system Wednesday morning, according to emergency and plant officials.
A spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, which owns and runs Indian Point, said it appears there were software problems with the new [...]

Flat Bottom Boats in Nyack Sept. 14 & 15th
Nineteen flatbottom sailboats from the Netherlands will arrive in Nyack at approximately 5:00 p.m. today. These historic vessels were shipped across the Atlantic and have been participating in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage of exploration on behalf of the Dutch East India [...]

Environmental Protection Agency officials instructed General Electric to temporarily suspend dredging in two areas of the upper Hudson River Friday after “a downstream water sample demonstrated PCB levels above EPA’s water quality standard.” There are nine dredges that will continue to work in other areas. The $750 million project shut down for four days last [...]

On Wednesday, September 16, the four counties in the emergency evacuation radius of Indian Point – Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange – are running their third quarterly full volume test of 2009. The sirens will go off at about 10:30am and sound for four  minutes. The new system has been in place for more than [...]