Extended News12 Interview With Prof. Christopher Gobler on Nitrogen Pollution in Long Island’s Groundwater, and It’s Consequences

by Marshall Brown | Sep 25, 2013 | Fixing Habitats

Extended interview with Dr. Chris GoblerDr. Gobler, of the SBU School of Marine Sciences, talks about how groundwater contaminants affect the waterways. via News12

News12 What’s In The Water, Part II: How Much Is Too Much?

by Marshall Brown | Sep 25, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured

On Tuesday, News12 aired the second of its five part series, What’s In The Water? with a discussion of pesticides in Long Island’s groundwater. I encourage all to watch the series, with an additional one hour panel discussion at 7 PM Thursday night. As per...

From News 12: LI’s 254 Superfund Sites Threaten Its Drinking Water

by Marshall Brown | Sep 24, 2013 | Cleaner Water

In addition to its 5 part series on LI water quality airing on the 5 oclock news the 23rd through the 27th and on line, News12 is also writing pieces that go further into depth into certain issues. Emily Dooley here addresses the challenges LI water faces when we have...

News12’s “What’s In The Water?” – Part I – Toxic Trails

by Marshall Brown | Sep 24, 2013 | Fixing Habitats

President of News12 Networks, Pat Dolan began his five part series on Long Island Water quality with Toxic Trails, which examines the growing underground plume of contaminants left in the ground by Grumman and its aerospace manufacturing facilities. The plume...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Now Lacks the Budget and Man Power to Do Its Job — Is This a Bug or a Feature?

by Marshall Brown | Sep 24, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

One preferred tactic for addressing laws you don’t like is to cut off funding to the point where those laws are no longer enforceable. Budgets are statements of priorities. The past ten years have seen sharp budget cuts at the NYSDEC — The New York State...

Newsday Posts An Interactive Map And Database of Active and Closed Superfund Sites In Nassau and Suffolk County — All 254 Of Them

by Marshall Brown | Sep 24, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

Newsday, which is now taking the whole issue of water quality quite seriously — Note the 5 part series that News12 airing Sept 23-27th: What’s In The Water? — has also posted an interactive map/listing of the 254 Superfund sites in Nassau and...

Some Interesting Titles About Water Quality from Earthprint.com

by Artie Kopelman | Sep 21, 2013 | Fixing Habitats

Here is a link for some books that might be of tremendous interest to the Save the Great South Bay community http://www.earthprint.com/emails/New-Recent-Water2013.php

9-10-13: The Long Island Clean Water Partnership Launch Covered by the Wall Street Journal

by Marshall Brown | Sep 19, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, a consortium of some 125+ organizations (and growing) was officially launched on September 10th at a press conference at the offices of The Citizen’s Campaign For The Environment in Farmingdale. Below is the blog post...

Breach Report 9-19-13: WSJ On The Breach: “The Kindest Cut of All”

by Marshall Brown | Sep 19, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured

Needless to say, Save The Great South Bay is delighted about this article on the breach in today’s Wall Street Journal. Will James interviewed some top scientists — Carl LoBue of The Nature Conservancy, Chris Gobler of Stonybrook/SCERP, and Professor...