Elena Gallard
The Bronx River is one of 10 waterways for which DEP is drafting long-term pollution reduction plans.
The proposal aims to reduce sewage overflows in the salt-water section of the resilient little river. But the bigger obstacles to fishing and swimming it might lie upstream.
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