by Marshall Brown | Sep 10, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
September 10th marks the launch of The Long Island Clean Water Partnership A consortium of 125 organizations (and growing), the partnership is dedicated to addressing the biggest threat facing Long Island and its future — contaminated ground water that is both...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Join The Cause and Build a Future For Long Island! Start using lawn and agricultural fertilizers that are eco-friendly, that don’t pollute our groundwater, drinking water and bays with excess nitrogen and phosphorus. The excess nitrogen has been...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Michael Busch of Bellport takes News12 out to The Old Inlet/Breach to show them how much healthier that part of the bay has become since Sandy created it six months ago — fluke, sea turtles, seal, osprey, clear waters — and how the bay continues to be...
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 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
Today marks the seventh day — and hopefully last — day of the heat wave.  It sure would be nice if we Long Islanders could head down to the shore and take a dip in the water to cool off.  That’s part of what brought people to Long Island in the...
