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...
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...
Michael certainly had a busy weekend. He has for us and today’s breach report a video and a slide show of the dismantling of the Pattersquash Gunner’s Association Club House, which rested on Pelican Island until Sandy and The New Inlet washed her off the...
….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...
It was a winding rough and eventually wet week on the Great South Bay, and the surf was up. Above is a telephoto shot of the surf at The New Inlet from a dock on Bellport Bay. Lots of blue fish being caught off the dock and in Bellport. Ospreys spotted on the...
