{"id":307466,"date":"2026-07-28T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:11:53","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-tiny-mussels-big-lessons-brooklyn-project-highlights-water-cleanup-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307466\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Tiny Mussels Big Lessons Brooklyn Project Highlights Water Cleanup Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mussels are helping teach students and community members about ways to improve water quality in one of Brooklyn\u2019s most polluted waterways.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Newtown Creek Alliance is using ribbed mussels and salt marsh grass in a tank called \u201cTina\u201d to demonstrate how nature-based solutions can help filter contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Water from Newtown Creek is pumped into the tank, where the mussels naturally filter pollutants before the water is returned to the creek.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cEach one filters somewhere between one and five gallons of water a day,\u201d said Gus Perry, with the Newtown Creek Alliance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Newtown Creek, which is a designated superfund site, receives over a billion gallons of combined sewage overflow each year, along with pollutants from street runoff, chemicals and petroleum products, according to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The organization says one tank alone cannot clean the entire creek, but projects like Tina help show students how natural systems can play a role in protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Newtown Creek Alliance hopes to expand efforts like this while continuing to educate the community about water quality and green infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mussels are helping teach students and community members about ways to improve water quality in one of Brooklyn\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-307466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}