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 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 | Dec 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
For over a year now, Prof. Charles Flagg and his research team from SOMAS (The Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) have been monitoring the breach of Fire Island at Bellport Bay, also known as The New Inlet, or The Old Inlet, since from the late...
by Marshall Brown | Nov 18, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Here is Will James, author of On Long Island Coast, An Unexpected Gift From Hurricane Sandy, which appeared recently in The Atlantic Magazine, on The Brian Lehrer Show 11-18-13 speaking about the breach / New Inlet on Fire Island has helped to revitalize the eastern...
