by Marshall Brown | Jul 26, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
In September 2012, The Peconic Baykeepersubmitted a 200 page petition to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) citing some 1,338 sewage treatment plants and large septic tanks and cesspools on Long Island, all in Suffolk County, that...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
With all the heavy rains in June, a lot of our ground water, heavily polluted by septic tanks and sewage, has washed into The Great South Bay, sparking the brown tide. The New Inlet is thus far keeping the brown tide out of the Eastern Great South Bay and Moriches...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 7, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay, a non-profit organization founded in August 2012, is a local grassroots organization dedicated to the revitalization of the bay. We want future generations to fish, clam and swim in these waters as we had. We want to restore marine and...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
….which begs the question, ‘shouldnt we be opening up breaches in Shinnecock and Moriches Bays and other places so that they could be freed of brown tides as well, and so that the fish can come back?  We’d still need to get our acts together...
by | Jun 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
From WNYC : Last Chance Foods — Something in The Water June 7th, 2013 Audio below: NYPR On-Demand Radioundefined via Wnyc Summer is right around the corner, which means many of us will head out to Long Island for clams bakes and time on the beach. But...
