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Can Long Island Be Saved, Part V: Cuomo’s Initiative to Improve Water Quality and Coastal Resilience

Can Long Island Be Saved, Part V: Cuomo’s Initiative to Improve Water Quality and Coastal Resilience

by Marshall Brown | May 30, 2014 | Education, Fixing Habitats

Here is the Part V in the series, Can Long Island Be Saved? It reviews the 2nd and 3rd meetings that were called for by Governor Cuomo as we seek to develop solutions to Long Island’s groundwater, marine and estuarine pollution issues. Here are the presentations...
The Long Island Clean Water Partnership – A Roster

The Long Island Clean Water Partnership – A Roster

by Marshall Brown | Apr 16, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

What follows is a roster of the 100+ organizations in The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, with websites for them embedded where available. The four charter organizations are listed first, then it proceeds alphabetically. The mission of the partnership is to build...
The Suffolk County Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan — The Anatomy of a Crisis For Long Island

The Suffolk County Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan — The Anatomy of a Crisis For Long Island

by Marshall Brown | Apr 9, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

Released January 24th, 2014, this report is thorough, comprehensive, and alarming.  The 350,000 septic tanks in Suffolk County are killing all our ponds, rivers, and bays. Lawn fertilizers, pesticides, toxic plumes, volatile household chemicals and improperly disposed...
Susan Brown’s Great South Bay Series — Part I, Paintings 1-72

Susan Brown’s Great South Bay Series — Part I, Paintings 1-72

by Marshall Brown | Oct 23, 2013 | Education, Featured

The artist Susan Brown of Sayville Long Island has painted a series of 72 paintings, all double sided, for a total of 144 paintings fo The Great South Bay, Fire Island, and The South Shore, particularly around her home town. Susan is autistic, but at 56 years old she...
Shellfishing on Long Island Collapses 99% Since 1980, In Part From Nitrogen Pollution Leading to Harmful Algal Blooms and Habitat Destruction (via SCERP)

Shellfishing on Long Island Collapses 99% Since 1980, In Part From Nitrogen Pollution Leading to Harmful Algal Blooms and Habitat Destruction (via SCERP)

by Marshall Brown | Oct 17, 2013 | Education

Here is a infographic on the impact of Nitrogen on shellfish.
From SCERP: DAMAGING BROWN TIDE RE-EMERGES ACROSS ENTIRE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND — Tell Our Politicians via Facebook!

From SCERP: DAMAGING BROWN TIDE RE-EMERGES ACROSS ENTIRE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND — Tell Our Politicians via Facebook!

by Marshall Brown | Oct 15, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

This is so discouraging. The brown tide has come back with a vengeance. It is widespread (except at the inlets, the New Inlet included), and the longer it lasts, the more damage it will do to habitats and to shell fish and fin fish. As a result The Nature Conservancy...
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