May 10, 2007 - On a spring day in 2002, a group of environmental advocates took a boat ride down Newtown Creek, searching for evidence of sustenance fishing. Instead, they stumbled upon an ecological nightmare.
Basil Seggos, chief investigator for Tarrytown-based Riverkeeper, said he and several other members of the Hudson River watchdog group witnessed something out of an eco-horror movie as their boat traveled along the waterway that divides western Queens and Brooklyn.
"One mile up the creek we were plowing through oil-soaked water," he said. "There was a thick coat of oil for hundreds of yards upstream and downstream. It was an indication of a very serious environmental condition and a lack of enforcement."
Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group dedicated to guarding the ecological integrity of the Hudson River, its tributaries and the city's watershed, was not the first to discover the pollution. Nearly 30 years ago, a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the large oil plume on the creek.
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