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State Grants More Than $100,000 To Go Towards Dam Removal Study In Rye To Help Fish State Grants More Than $100,000 To Go Towards Dam Removal Study In Rye To Help Fish
State Grants More Than $100,000 To Go Towards Dam Removal Study In Rye To Help Fish With the help of a more than $100,000 grant, a nonprofit will team up with a Westchester County school district to look into removing a dam in order to benefit migratory fish.  The $109,984 grant will fund a study to look into the removal of the Blind Brook Dam in Rye, which will be completed by both the Save the Sound nonprofit and students from Rye High School, according to an announcement from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation from Monday, Oct. 31.  The removal of the dam could possibly reconnect 3.5 miles of migratory fish habitat for bo…

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Rye Allegedly Failed To Respond To Raw Sewage Leak Rye Allegedly Failed To Respond To Raw Sewage Leak
Rye Allegedly Failed To Respond To Raw Sewage Leak Rye on notice for apparent failure to respond to raw sewage leak https://t.co/0kwyBnaT3u - New York state has put the city of Rye on notice for its apparent failure to respond after raw sewage leaking into the Blind Brook made its way into the Sound Shore. More than two months ago, officials from the environmental group Save the Sound alerted Rye officials and the state Department of Environmental Conservation that they found raw sewage, potentially millions of gallons, flowing from a catch basin near I-95 into the Blind Brook, according to this report by News12. The DEC sent a letter to …

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