About the Program:
Program Committees & Work Groups - Public Access

The Public Access Work Group was created recently to help advance HEP’s goal of improving public access to the waterfront. The emerging public awareness of water quality improvements brought about by the Clean Water Act and other regulations has fueled a growing desire for more waterfront and water use. Access to the waterfront and waterways is fundamental to sustaining this momentum to improve water quality.

The Public Access Work Group will create a plan to achieve the policy changes and other activities necessary to improve access to the waterfront. More specifically, the plan will lay out a course of action to ensure that all residents in the core area of the Harbor have a public waterfront access site within thirty minutes of their home for boating, fishing, swimming and/or waterfront leisure, without harming important habitat areas or compromising waterborne commerce.

For more information, please contact the Public Access Work Group chair, Carter Craft at 212-935-9831.

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