The Akwesasne Earth Day Celebration & Native Plants Workshop
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, the Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment ( ATFE) and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne will be hosting the Native Plants in Landscaping Workshop, featuring presentations on the use of native plants in residental and commercial landscaping. Read the entire Earth Day announcement.
St. Lawrence River Remediation Project 2009
With the oversight of the EPA, this summer Alcoa will be completing remediation work in the St. Lawrence River near the Alcoa East Plant. A crane, barge and other equipment will be visible on the water. The majority of the in-water work will take place from mid-June through September. The area will be marked with buoys, but to ensure the safety of recreationalists and workers, boaters are urged to use caution and to avoid areas where equipment is in place. The public can watch the work from a shoreline observation platform on Haverstock Road.
Click Here. To view the slide show.
Request for Public Comments
Permittee: St Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, PO Box 520, Massena NY 13662-0520
Project Area: Navigation Channel, South of Cornwall Island, Akwesasne, NY 13655
Project Description: The Seaway requests a Water Quality Certification from the Tribe for proposed maintenance dredging in the St. Lawrence River. The dredging will take place in the International Tangent Section of the navigation channel between Cornwall Island and Hen Island. Approximately 3,200 cubic yards of sediments from four isolated spots in the channel will be removed. The Tribe is requiring environmental dredging techniques for the project with no barge overflow. Sediments will be temporarily stored in a containment area near the Snell lock, and then properly disposed.
The Tribe’s Historic Preservation Officer has found no significant impact to archeological resources resulting from the project on the US portion of the reserve.
Please submit written public comments to the Tribe’s contact person for this project. The repository for documents pertaining to this project is located at the SRMT Environment Division office, 449 Frogtown Rd, Akwesasne, NY 13655.
Documents can also be found at the following links:
- DredgeSedimentSummary.pdf - 521 KB
- FinalSeaway401WQP.pdf - 288 KB
Contact Person: Tony David, Program Manager, Water Resources, SRMT Environment Division 412 State Route 37, Akwesasne, NY 13655 tony.david@srmt-nsn.gov
Rights vs Responsibility
There are many invasive species out there that will have a devastating effect on our wood-lots. Many of these insects and there eggs/larvae will hitch rides on firewood. These pests will also ride on logs, pallets, bark. And almost all forms of wood products that are not dried.read more...
Tribe’s Provisions to water quality standards Approved
Hogansburg, NY— The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Environment Division has received
approval of the Tribe’s water quality standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. The tribe now has the distinction of being one of only six Eastern tribes to
establish its own water quality standards. (Read entire press release and view the water quality standards)
Mohawk Environmental Review Code (MERC)
The purpose is to protect the natural environment of the Mohawk Territory at Akwesasne, to take affirmative action to restore and enhance environmental quality in areas that have been subject to degradation, and to ensure that no proposed development that might cause significant environmental degradation will be permitted prior to the completion of a thorough environmental review in which alternatives and mitigation measures are fully considered.
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe declares this to be Tribal Law.
This code applies to all developers who wish to develop on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.
To read more about the code and its purpose (Click Here).
Project Overview – Air Sampling for Benzene
We will be sampling air to test for the levels of Benzene in our community. The testing will be focused mainly on Benzene but will also identify if there are concerning levels of other air toxins. We have a special concern for Benzene because of the amount of known Benzene emitting sources in and around Akwesasne. Benzene emitting sources include but are not limited to; cigarette smoke, vehicle exhaust (including all terrain vehicles and lawn mowers), gas stations and industrial emissions. Read more ...