by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | May 17, 2024 | Cleaner Water, Nitrogen Pollution, Water Quality
NEW YORK STATE SENATE PASSES SUFFOLK COUNTY WATER QUALITY RESTORATION ACT, DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS URGE GOVERNOR TO SIGN IMMEDIATELY (Newsday, 05/16/24) Albany, NY (May 16, 2024) – Today, the New York State Senate passed the Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Nov 7, 2023 | Algal Blooms, Education, Fixing Habitats, Nitrogen Pollution, Water Quality
On Friday, October 20th at Save The Great South Bay’s quarterly Speaker Series, Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences gave his 4th annual State of the Bay presentation, this year including all of the...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Nov 2, 2023 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay, a local 501(c)3 environmental non-profit, is launching the South Shore Bays Unified Water Study, a pilot program using an innovative water quality monitoring protocol. This initiative allows groups across the South Shore to gather comparable...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jul 6, 2021 | Algal Blooms, Nitrogen Pollution
An intense and damaging brown tide has erupted across Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory at Stony Brook University has revealed that a brown tide has rapidly intensified to more than 300,000 cells per milliliter in...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 24, 2018 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Lawn Fertilizer, Nitrogen Pollution
As many of you know, a law has been proposed in Albany that would mandate that lawn fertilizer contain no more than 12% nitrogen in the bag, and at least 50% non-soluble (slow release) nitrogen. With at least 10% of the nitrogen in the bay coming from lawn...
