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      • Enforcement on PIPC NJ Boat Basin Dredging
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      • Fallkill Creek: Poughkeepsie Maintenance Garage Oil Spill
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      • Manhattan: Dyckman Marina
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      • Newtown Creek: Allocco Recycling
      • Newtown Creek: Empire Transit Mix
      • Newtown Creek: NYCON Supply Corporation
      • Peekskill Sewage Leak Addressed
      • Protecting Wetlands in Cornwall
      • Putnam Creek: Camp Smith Oil Spill
      • Riverdale: Illegal Sewage Discharges from Apartment Buildings
      • Riverkeeper and NYC Council Call on City to Control Waterfront Dumping
      • Riverkeeper Files Comments on Army Corps Dredging Project
      • Riverkeeper Takes a Stand on Artificial Turf in NYC Parks
      • RvK Comments on Ossining Sewage Treatment
      • Wallkill River: Village of New Paltz Sewage Discharges
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      • Ballpark on Chicken Island, Yonkers
      • Empire Connection Power Line
      • General Motors Site Redevelopment, Sleepy Hollow
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      • Hudson’s Landing (Stuyvesant)
      • Kingston Landing
      • Landfilling the Hudson North of Battery Park City
      • Newburgh Proposed Waterfront Redevelopment
      • Proposed Mall in Newburgh
      • Proposed Rezoning of the East River Waterfront
      • Redevelopment Project, Yonkers
      • Rensselaear Riverfront Development
      • Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, Queens
      • St. Lawrence Cement in Hudson
      • Waters Edge, Dobbs Ferry
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      • Bedford Community Church Expansion
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      • Hunter Mountain Snowmaking Expansion / Diversion Weir
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