by Marshall Brown | May 30, 2014 | Education, Fixing Habitats
Here is the Part VÂ 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...
by Marshall Brown | May 24, 2014 | Fixing Habitats
From Wednesday 5/21/2014 Huffington Post, Part IVÂ of the continuing series, “Can Long Island Be Saved?”
by Marshall Brown | May 17, 2014 | Cleaner Water
Part III of the Huffington Post series, Can Long Island Be Saved? Here, we interview Carl LoBue, senior marine scientist of The Nature Conservancy.
by Marshall Brown | May 14, 2014 | Fixing Habitats
In The Huffington Post on May 14th, 2014, I published Part II of Can Long Island Be Saved.  The meeting was largely about the importance of creating an ocean outfall pipe for a rebuilt Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. Without an outfall pipe, the high nitrogen...
by Marshall Brown | May 7, 2014 | Cleaner Water
Here is Part I of a projected three month series on the question, Can Long Island Be Saved? This series, written for The Huffington Post, will focus primarily on water quality issues. What is happening to our drinking water? What is happening to our bays, rivers and...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 23, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
This is huge news. All oars are in the water now. The Governor, The NYS DEC, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone, and of course all the LI eco-nonprofits in The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, led by The Citizen’s...
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...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 9, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
Released January 24th, 2014, this report is thorough, comprehensive, and alarming. Â 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...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 28, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
On Long Island, science is trumping politics. People from across the political spectrum have embraced the fact that Long Island urgently needs a plan to fix its waste water problems. The science is speaking for itself – 500,000 septic tanks, 360,000 in Suffolk.  The...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 10, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
On November 13th, 2013, The Suffolk County Legislature voted 13-3 to raid the Drinking Water Protection Program to the tune of almost $33 million dollars in order to balance the budget.  This was unacceptable then, and now.  The fund was established in 1987 by a...
by Marshall Brown | Feb 7, 2014 | Fixing Habitats
A public rally in support of rebuilding Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in a way that is good for the environment and for Long Island’s economy and safety, is being held at The Theodore Roosevelt 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola at 11AM on February 11th. The...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 24, 2014 | Cleaner Water
To: Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone From: The Membership of Save The Great South Bay Re: Water Quality on Long Island Dear Mr. Bellone, We of Save The Great South Bay applaud your leadership in helping to shine a light on the major issue threatening all of Long...
