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Welcome to HarborEstuary.org!
Welcome. The New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program (HEP) is a National Estuary Program authorized in 1987 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The program is a multi-year effort to develop and implement a plan to protect, conserve, and restore the estuary. Participants in the program include representatives from local, state, and federal environmental agencies, scientists, citizens, business interests, environmentalists, and others.
The New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary was designated an "Estuary of National Significance" by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The Estuary includes the waters of New York Harbor and the tidally influenced portions of all rivers and streams that empty into the Harbor. » More
For more about HEP...
Click Here to contact us via our new online request forms to submit inquiries and/or community events. And Click Here to see our listing of Estuary-relatead events.
Publications and Web Sites ...
Regional Sediment Management Plan
 (2008) | PDF This Oct '08 HEP report presents a Regional Sediment Management Plan for the New York & New Jersey Harbor Estuary. The plan embodies the consensus of the Regional Sediment Management Workgroup charged with this purpose. |
Harbor-wide Water Quality Monitoring Report
 for the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary (2008) | PDF This July '08 HEP report outlines the environ-mental condition of the Harbor Estuary. It also tracks trends in a series of indicators that shed some light on whether conditions in the estuary are improving. |
Target Ecosystem Characteristics (TECs) for
 the Hudson Raritan Estuary: Technical Guidance for Developing a Comprehensive Ecosystem Restoration Plan (2007) | PDF TECs are an important component of the overall habitat restoration planning effort in the harbor |
The draft Hudson-Raritan Estuary
 Comprehensive Restoration Plan (CRP) is now available via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Web site (Click Here). Hard copies can be requested through the Corps' office. Outreach meetings will be scheduled and held throughout the year to obtain public input and further build consensus. |
What's New?
HEP 2009 Grants
New 2009 request for proposals for Habitat Restoration and Stewardship Grants. For more details | Click Here
Public Access
New 2009 RFP and Rating Criteria: Estuary and Water Access Event Days Grant | Click Here
HEP's Tidal Exchange ...
Our Summer 2009 issue of our newsletter is now available. Also, all back issues of HEP's Tidal Exchange are now available in both pdf and text formats | Click Here
New Work Group Information See "About the Program" section for publications, presentations and pictures on Harbor Herons and Public Access Groups | Click Here
Interested in what the water quality is like in the Harbor? Check out our series of sampling surveys. | Click Here
Jamaica Bay habitat project funding available from Dissolved Oxygen Fund | Click Here
Stimulus Bill 2009
Details on the Act that President Obama signed in February and how it could affect the NY-NJ HEP and other National Estuary Programs | Click Here
Stewardship and Education Learn about and register for upcoming Harbor Education events sponsored by HEP | Click Here
Spring Science Seminar Series, sponsored by HRF and HEP. Click here for a complete listing
HEP Action Plan '08 ...
View HEP's new Action Plan with priority actions | Click Here
EstuaryLive! ...
HEP was pleased to host an EstuaryLive broadcast from Jamaica Bay on September 29, 2006. More than 15,000 students across the country were registered to participate in the live virtual field trip. To view the archived broadcast, Click Here.
New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program • 290 Broadway, 24th Floor • New York, NY 10007-1866
Phone: 212-637-3816 • Fax: 212-637-3889 • E-mail: info@harborestuary.org
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