Environment Program News

CCEDC's Environment Program and the Vassar College Environmental Research Institute have created a new interactive, community watershed website that will help members of local watershed groups, municipal officials, youth and teachers, and researchers learn about and protect the water resources in Dutchess County, NY.

Watch the first of a 3-part video of the Science and Management Forum held on March 6th at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in collaboration with CCEDC's Environment Program, DC Department of Planning and Development, and the DC Planning Federation.

This July we will be participating in the second annual Dutchess Watershed Awareness Month. We invite you to join us in a series of educational and watershed awareness activities and events across Dutchess County, including guided nature walks, canoe and kayak trips, watershed cleanups, festivals and many other events in towns throughout the County. All WAM events are family-friendly activities aimed at increasing public awareness of watershed issues.

To learn more, or if you would like to become a sponsor of WAM, visit: dutchesswam.com, where you can read about WAM 2009 activities. Also, be sure to check back here in June for more info.

WASHINGTON, DC - December 18, 2009 - The U.S. EPA released its most comprehensive study of the nation's lakes to date. The draft study, which rated the condition of 56 percent of the lakes in the United States as good and the remainder as fair or poor, marked the first time EPA and its partners used a nationally consistent approach to survey the ecological and water quality of lakes.