by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Given how once again we are being drenched with rain, we thought putting up some pics from better times — yesterday — would be a welcome thing.  Courtesy Michael Busch’s Great South Bay Images.  Enjoy! This slideshow requires...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
….which begs the question, ‘shouldnt we be opening up breaches in Shinnecock and Moriches Bays and other places so that they could be freed of brown tides as well, and so that the fish can come back?  We’d still need to get our acts together...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Michael Busch of Great South Bay Images took this shot of The Pattersquash Gunner’s Association clubhouse, which sits right now in the middle of a system of shoals, sandbars, and channels that is the New Inlet. Â Â As you can see, much of the water is quite...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Submitted to STGSB.    Maybe they were shooting a new episode of Deadliest Catch.   Some charter fishing boat was definitely in the worst place you’d want to be — by the OUTFALL pipe of The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, and during a week when the...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
At least some of you will not be able to read this, not being registered at Newsday — the gist is, however, that we are once again facing large scale algal blooms this year, with worse perhaps to come.   Interestingly though, while so many bays are suffering,...
by | Jun 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
From WNYC : Last Chance Foods — Something in The Water June 7th, 2013 Audio below: NYPR On-Demand Radioundefined via Wnyc Summer is right around the corner, which means many of us will head out to Long Island for clams bakes and time on the beach. But...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
The latest from SCERP — Stony Brook Southhampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program This is happening because our waters are polluted by 100K+ septic tanks in Suffolk, by people who use lawn fertilizer, by 2000 outfall pipes dumping storm runoff into our...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Today’s Breach Report comes to us from “Mike T,” who was out boating in Bellport Bay yesterday.  Here’s the picture he submitted, with his commentary: “This would have been a brown trail last year. Water is so clean. Keep thinking...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 10, 2013 | Cleaner Water
It was a winding rough and eventually wet week on the Great South Bay, and the surf was up.   Above is a telephoto shot of the surf at The New Inlet from a dock on Bellport Bay.  Lots of blue fish being caught off the dock and in Bellport.  Ospreys spotted on the...
by | Jun 7, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Brown tide press release Southampton, NY, June 7th 2013 – A brown tide has emerged within some, but not all, of Long Island’s south shore estuaries. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences has revealed...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 6, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
We at the Save the Great South Bay know that residents along the South Shore of Long Island are vulnerable and nervous every time a named storm comes our way.   That’s why it is important to be ready and aware of what to expect.   Tropical Storm Andrea will...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 6, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Sadly, but predictably, we were right.   The torrential rains Andrea brought also washed millions and millions of gallons of contaminated ground water waste into our ponds, streams, rivers and bays, and forced the closure of a number of beaches on Long Island.    ...
