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Creating a Rain Garden

Creating a Rain Garden

by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 31, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats, Water Quality

Beyond providing nutrition and beautifying spaces, gardens can serve many purposes, such as supporting natural processes and pollinators.  Rain gardens are a type of specialty garden that help protect our waterways by managing stormwater runoff.  Below are some tips ...
Top 3 Elements of a Bay Friendly Yard

Top 3 Elements of a Bay Friendly Yard

by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 11, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats

Long Island invented the suburban lawn. Fields of green with ornamental bushes brought in from all over the world requiring all manner of care — watering, fertilizing, pesticides — so that exotics and plants from other climates could survive here.  But...
Harmful Algal Blooms: Know it, AVOID it, Report it!

Harmful Algal Blooms: Know it, AVOID it, Report it!

by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 3, 2020 | Algal Blooms, Cleaner Water, Education, Water Quality

From our colleagues at the NYS Department of Environmental Control. Because it is hard to tell a HAB from non-harmful algal blooms, it is best to avoid swimming, boating, otherwise recreating in, or drinking water with a bloom. Keep reading to learn what to do if you...
Protect Our Drinking Water

Protect Our Drinking Water

by Save The Great South Bay | Jul 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water, Education, Water Quality

We stand shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues at Group for the East End, and many other local environmental groups, in opposition of the two bills proposed by County Executive Steve Bellone that would raid the County’s Drinking Water Protection Program for the...
Do Good, Drink Well.

Do Good, Drink Well.

by Save The Great South Bay | Jul 11, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats

It’s back & more refreshing than ever. It’s Blue Point Brewery’s remarkable (and limited edition) label, Drink The Bay Clean, created to support Save The Great South Bay in its mission.  This year’s rendition, as a delicious Helles Lager,...
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