Waterbody / Watershed Facts - Harlem River

BOROUGH:

Manhattan and Bronx

SEWER DISTRICTS

North River and Wards Island

COMMUNITY DISTRICT(S):

Manhattan: 10, 11, 12

Bronx: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8

SHORELINE USES:

Commercial: Industrial: Institutional; Recreational; Residential; Municipal; Parkland and Open Space

NYSDEC CLASSIFICATION:

Class 1 - Secondary Contact; Fishing.

Existing Water Quality:

Dissolved oxygen and coliform levels are in non-compliance with standards. (East River CSO Facility Plan, 1996). Settleable solids and floatables are discharged by CSO's

EXISTING WATER USES:

Commercial Shipping and Barging; Recreational Boating

SOURCES OF
WATER POLLUTION:

CSOs; stormwater and other runoff; impacts of boundary water quality

PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
EFFECTING WATER QUALITY
AND USES:

Dredged; Floatables; Physical conditions affecting water quality and uses

ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION:

No Designation

DEP WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT(S):(WQIP)

Catch Basin Hooding Program

PROJECTED WQIP WATER QUALITY:

Implementation of the Inner Harbor and East River Facility Plans will improve disolved oxygen and coliform levels, but the river will remain in non-compliance with standards. Reduction of floatables discharges.

OTHER WQIP INITIATIVES:

NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program
– salt marsh and riparian habitat restoration