The mission of the Bronx River Alliance is to serve as a coordinated voice for the river and work in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor and greenway so that they can be healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resources for the communities through which the river flows.



Objectives:



Manage, with City of New York/Parks & Recreation, the New York City Bronx River corridor and greenway, implement small scale restoration projects, coordinate larger scale restoration projects and support community-led or sponsored restoration and development projects



Provide technical assistance and support to community-based efforts to organize around the Bronx River



Develop Bronx River curricula and train teachers to bring the Bronx River into the classroom and promote the Bronx River as an outdoor classroom



Coordinate a Bronx River Watershed monitoring program to collect and share watershed quality data and to identify and address watershed quality problems



The Bronx River Alliance is committed to practicing and upholding the values of inclusion, collaboration, environmental justice, responsiveness, communication, ecological restoration, innovation, respect, integrity and public access.