by Marshall Brown | Jul 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
With all the heavy rains in June, a lot of our ground water, heavily polluted by septic tanks and sewage, has washed into The Great South Bay, sparking the brown tide. The New Inlet is thus far keeping the brown tide out of the Eastern Great South Bay and Moriches...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 7, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay, a non-profit organization founded in August 2012, is a local grassroots organization dedicated to the revitalization of the bay. We want future generations to fish, clam and swim in these waters as we had. We want to restore marine and...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 2, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
The Long Island Clean Water Coalition, formed by a group of some twenty eco-non-profits and environmental research institutions large and small have come together to to address the water quality crisis now facing Long Island. Our groundwater is polluted, and...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 1, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured
SoMAS (Stonybrook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) has been monitoring the breach since Sandy, measuring tides, as well as the depth and breadth of The Breach/New Inlet on a monthly basis. Here then is their June 28th report, which presents what...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 26, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
All of a sudden, it seems like we are seeing loggerhead turtles not only in The New Inlet, but in several other places in the GSB and elsewhere. The ones in The Great South Bay were at The New Inlet (see below) and at Robert Moses, as previously noted, and as well in...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 20, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
That’s at least what fisherman and boatsman Peter Curto had to say, and he has the pictures to prove it: This slideshow requires...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Sez “Surf FireIsland”: “Epic fluke fishing happening in the bay right now. Thanks to new inlet for making the bay full of life again!” He’s got the picture to prove it!: Also stripers, blues, weakfish, blowfish in number and size this...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Brad Geoghan took some pictures yesterday of Bellport Bay and some just south of The New Inlet. These pictures say it all — The water is cleaner and clearer than many can remember, all thanks to the fact that The New Inlet is flushing the polluted water out of...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Seagrant ( a lot more on them below, from their site), offers an overview of the two most important topics affecting The Great South Bay and the Western Bays — The Breach / New Inlet, and The Crippling of The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant By Hurricane...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 17, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Michael certainly had a busy weekend. He has for us and today’s breach report a video and a slide show of the dismantling of the Pattersquash Gunner’s Association Club House, which rested on Pelican Island until Sandy and The New Inlet washed her off the...
by John Hall | Jun 13, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Big things like saving the Great South Bay don’t happen by chance and they are not free. It takes time, money and effort to make a difference. So I thought I’d relate this story. Some months ago, Lori Stuck agreed to let her Islip store: (Lori’s Nook...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point. Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, and...
