by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Seagrant ( a lot more on them below, from their site), offers an overview of the two most important topics affecting The Great South Bay and the Western Bays — The Breach / New Inlet, and The Crippling of The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant By Hurricane...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point.  Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, 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 Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
At least some of you will not be able to read this, not being registered at Newsday — the gist is, however, that we are once again facing large scale algal blooms this year, with worse perhaps to come.   Interestingly though, while so many bays are suffering,...
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...