The Breach Report 8-05-13: Fisherman Michael Busch Interviewed By News 12 on The Old Inlet

by Marshall Brown | Aug 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Michael Busch of Bellport takes News12 out to The Old Inlet/Breach to show them how much healthier that part of the bay has become since Sandy created it six months ago — fluke, sea turtles, seal, osprey, clear waters — and how the bay continues to be...

Long Island’s South Shore Wastewater Infrastructure Problem

by John Hall | Jul 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish

Carl LoBue’s posts on the Save The Great South Bay Facebook page always get me thinking, and googling. And this one is no exception: Carl LoBue, on the relationship between the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant and Point Lookout seaweed: Although the configuration...

Mapping The Rate of Septic Tank Seepage / Polluted Water Flow On Long Island

by Marshall Brown | Jul 26, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

In September 2012, The Peconic Baykeepersubmitted a 200 page petition to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) citing some 1,338 sewage treatment plants and large septic tanks and cesspools on Long Island, all in Suffolk County, that...

Is Mosquito Spraying Killing Crustaceans?

by John Hall | Jul 26, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Pesticides, Shellfish

Nice to see our Peconic Baykeeper, Kevin McCallister being interviewed by News12 on the topic of aerial spraying of larvicide for the control of mosquitoes. Kevin relays anecdotal reports that crabbers are bringing up dead crabs after mosquito spraying by the County...

Got Color Photos of Fire Island and The Great South Bay From 1960 – Present? Send Them In And Help Write History

by Marshall Brown | Jul 25, 2013 | Education, Featured

Shoshanna McCullom, local author, is appealing to the public to share their pictures with her as she writes her latest book: REQUEST FOR IMAGES: Only 15 months after the release of Fire Island: Beach Resort and National Seashore I have been awarded a contract...

Local Filmmaker Seeks Support for Documentary About Long Island Pollution

by Marshall Brown | Jul 22, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Save The Great South Bay wishes Chris Casey all the best in his efforts to fund his film, “Air, Land, Water: The Environmental Challenges Facing Long Island.” Visit his site at LongIslandPollution.com. It well describes what we are facing. Chris, we...

A Water Quality Crisis On Long Island — Brown Tide, Beach Closings; Baykeeper Brings Law Suits Against New York State and The Federal Government

by Marshall Brown | Jul 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

Today marks the seventh day — and hopefully last — day of the heat wave. It sure would be nice if we Long Islanders could head down to the shore and take a dip in the water to cool off. That’s part of what brought people to Long Island in the...

What Caused The Brown Tide in The Great South Bay in 2013? SCERP Has The Answer in One Graphic

by Marshall Brown | Jul 15, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured

via Facebook From SCERP (Stony Brook Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program)’s Facebook Page. Give them a WELL DESERVED LIKE for their outstanding research! WHAT CAUSED THE 2013 BROWN TIDE IN GREAT SOUTH BAY? The outbreak of the brown...

In Praise of The Stony Brook Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program (SCERP) — “Like” Them on Facebook If You Care About The Fate of The Great South Bay and Every Bay

by Marshall Brown | Jul 14, 2013 | Education, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish

Please “Like” SCERP on Facebook if you want healthy bays! Why is SCERP’s (and Professor Christopher Gobler’s) research so important? Because they are investigating the causes of algal blooms all around Long Island and the world. Over the...

The Breach Report July 11th — New Inlet Holding Off The Brown Tide, at Least In The Eastern Part of The Great South Bay (via SCERP)

by Marshall Brown | Jul 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

SCERP — The Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program — has posted this dramatic picture of how the massive brown tide bloom in The Great South Bay is not spreading to the south eastern part of the bay, thanks to The New Inlet: Note how this...