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Water Quality Testing is Essential.
Tell DEC not to eliminate its funding.
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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has slashed the state's water quality testing budget and is now proposing to slash the state's hazardous pollutant testing guidelines - reducing testing from once every 5 years to once every 10 years...or less. Join us, and our friends at Riverkeeper in urging DEC to keep a 5-year waterway testing schedule - testing our waters once every 10 years is not enough. Scroll down to take action!
DEC has cut its statewide water quality monitoring budget by a third, eliminating testing for bacteria and pesticides. We know from the State's data, Riverkeeper's, and from our own, that sewage pollution and pesticides pose a serious threat to our waterways and our health. We need more data, not less, on the location and magnitude of these pollutants.
DEC's proposed new guidelines also make it more difficult for water quality data from outside sources to be considered when making water quality assessments and plans. We need more sources of data, not fewer, to track and address water quality pollution.
A water quality data blackout is bad for our health, our environment, and our economy. Please join us in calling for the restoration of our statewide water quality monitoring programs to 2012 levels of funding, staffing and testing.
Please email your comments and concerns directly to NYSDEC at jamyers@gw.dec.state.ny.us. You can use this sample as a guide. And please be sure to send us copy as well at tanderson@savethesound.org.
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