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 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 | 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 | 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.    ...
