News release: “After seven years of groundbreaking research and consensus building, the NY/NJ Harbor Consortium of the New York Academy of Sciences, a coalition of over 70 stakeholder organizations, unveiled its final report describing an innovative and collaborative process that brought stakeholders together to recommend and implement actions leading to a more sustainable NY/NJ Harbor Watershed. The harbor project examined the causes of on-going pollution to the harbor and developed management strategies for five important contaminants: mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
The exhaustive report, Safe Harbor: Bringing People and Science Together to Improve the New York/New Jersey Harbor – Collaborative Problems Solving Using An Industrial Ecology Approach, was presented and discussed at a New York Academy of Sciences gathering of scientists, engineers and other technical experts representing the most extensive level of environmental expertise in the region today.