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Breach Report 9-7-13 — Beauty and the Breach

Breach Report 9-7-13 — Beauty and the Breach

by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water

Scott Gerber reports from his 1946 Piper Cub:   Somewhere down there — a school of fish. Meanwhile on the ground below, celebrity hound Otis travels with his master Surf Fireisland to The Old Inlet / Breach...
The Breach Report, 8-13-13: So What Are We To Call It?   The Breach, The Old Inlet, The New Inlet?

The Breach Report, 8-13-13: So What Are We To Call It? The Breach, The Old Inlet, The New Inlet?

by Marshall Brown | Aug 13, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

There is really no consensus on what to call the inlet created by Hurricane Sandy across from Bellport Bay and west of Smith Point.    Over at our Facebook Group, Save the Great South Bay, we have debated this and voted on this repeatedly. We have had various marine...

Breach Report 08-07-13 : CBS News Reports “Mounting Debate,” Features County Legislator vs. Almost Everyone Else

by Marshall Brown | Aug 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats

It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy.    Without that, there is no story.   You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
The Breach Report 8-05-13:  Fisherman Michael Busch Interviewed By News 12 on The Old Inlet

The Breach Report 8-05-13: Fisherman Michael Busch Interviewed By News 12 on The Old Inlet

by Marshall Brown | Aug 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Michael Busch of Bellport takes News12 out to The Old Inlet/Breach to show them how much healthier that part of the bay has become since Sandy created it six months ago — fluke, sea turtles, seal, osprey, clear waters — and how the bay continues to be...
The Breach Report July 11th — New Inlet Holding Off The Brown Tide, at Least In The Eastern Part of The Great South Bay (via SCERP)

The Breach Report July 11th — New Inlet Holding Off The Brown Tide, at Least In The Eastern Part of The Great South Bay (via SCERP)

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...
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