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Babylon: Vote YES On Sewering Jan 22nd And Help The Bay!
Save The Great South Bay encourages all local residents eligible for a sewer hook up (the red zones on the map ) to vote …
A Letter To The Great River Community
Attention Great River residents! You can help your community, help The Great South Bay, and help lead The South Shore to a better future by voting YES January 22nd on the sewering ballot. The money is there to spend from federal Sandy Relief funds, but this is our one chance. Cesspools are destroying the bay. Other communities will have their votes coming up. Let's start with a YES to a healthy bay and to a more vibrant South Shore!
Methoprene Madness in Suffolk County
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Suffolk County Legislature once again approved the use of Methoprene spray for mosquito control, with regular …
Save The Great South Bay Facebook Demographics
Our Facebook Group has some interesting demographics, as per Facebook itself -- age, gender, location, and frequency of posting. All this data matters as we continue to pivot away from Facebook as the groups primary home, and move to our website, where we can drive action, control our content, and reach a broader audience.
Post-Sandy, Why Are We Still Building?
What will it take for Long Island to have a sensible development strategy given the inevitability of future storms and sea level rise? Six years after Sandy, its business as usual, building right up to the shore. Some developers are planning for the inevitable, to be sure, but the overall effort is scant.
No More Methoprene
Methoprene is a growth inhibitor used to combat mosquitoes. It is in the process of being banned in a number of states and jurisdictions because it kills not only mosquitoes, but other related insects and arthropods -- crabs, lobsters. Deforming mosquito larvae chemically damages marsh ecosystems. Suffolk County must ban spraying it.
Building A Newsroom For Save The Great South Bay
Save The Great South Bay is establishing a newsroom, a team of citizen-journalists and guest posters who will cover all the issues we …
From a Island To a Nation – If we were a country, we’d be the 96th most populated ahead of Israel
I stumbled on this GEM of a Video produced by Newsday in the 60’s. A time where fish and clams and oysters were so …
Excavating in a Public Nature Preserve To Mitigate Flooding Creates Other Obvious Problems
The North Fork Preserve, a 173 acre park in Eastern Suffolk, is being damaged by an ill advised public works project involving heavy equipment and multiple excavations in marshland disturbing rare habitat.
New York and New Jersey Government leading the Ecological charge for our NY/NJ area bays, rivers and estuaries. It’s True!
Facts: 2018 Cuomo Priority: Full PCB Clean Up of the Hudson River Cuomo Announces $10.4 Mil to Clean LI’s Waters With Shellfish A New …
Engineer Approved Drainage Plans Threaten Sensitive Natural Habitat In Long Island’s North Fork
There must be a stop work order issued immediately on this "enhancement" project. The North Fork Nature Preserve is about to be ravaged by a major excavation project that would establish a series of retention ponds, thus ruining the hydrology of a good portion of this county park. This project is being undertaken for the benefit of a few home owners who built on The Sound who take exception to water from the preserve flowing through their beach. How did this ever get approved with no environmental impact analysis? This must not stand.