by Marshall Brown | Jul 2, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
The Long Island Clean Water Coalition, formed by a group of some twenty eco-non-profits and environmental research institutions large and small have come together to to address the water quality crisis now facing Long Island.  Our groundwater is polluted, and...
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...
by Marshall Brown | May 28, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The conclusions from SCERP (The Stonybrook Southampton Estuarine Research Program) are clear.  We are reaping the harvest of having no sewer system in Suffolk, and 100,000+ septic tanks leeching nitrogen into the groundwater for the past 40 years.   All indicator...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Prof. Christopher Gobler and his team at SCERP (Stony Brook Southampton Coastal Estuary Research Program)Â have just released some very interesting data on nitrogen levels in the eastern Great South Bay before and after Sandy and the New Inlet:...
