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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...