Here are some stories from the Hudson River this week. Click here to hear an audio version of this report. (3:32)

• The Stevens Institute reports temperatures this week in the Hudson River at Schodack Island have been between 31 and 33 degrees, about two degrees colder than last week.

• Kenneth C. Crowe II in the Albany Times Union interviews David Stacey, who goes fishing in the Hudson River near Rensselaer, Coxsackie, and Coeymans, but uses a magnet. But Stacey is not trying to catch fish, but find detritus from the bottom of the Hudson. "I know if I go regular fishing I'll catch a fish. If I go magnet fishing I don't know what I'll pull up," Stacey said. He uses different magnets that can pull items that weigh from 170 pounds to 1,000 pounds out of the river. Last week, at Rensselaer's Riverfront Park he reeled in a bicycle, and has also pulled in golf clubs at Henry Hudson Park in Bethlehem. Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.

• WNYT reports that sewage from three Watervliet homes flows directly into the Hudson River. The state Department of Environmental Conservation reports that more than 404,000 gallons of untreated discharge has made its way into the Hudson over the last three months, because the homes are not on the city's sewage system. Homeowners may have to pay to get hooked into the city's sewer system, but Watervliet did not return the television station's calls for comment. Read the full story at the WNYT website.

• In Hudson, the City of Hudson Wastewater Treatment Facility discharged a combined sewer overflow of 75 gallons per minute for 20 hours Dec. 23.