by Marshall Brown | Apr 9, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
Released January 24th, 2014, this report is thorough, comprehensive, and alarming. Â The 350,000 septic tanks in Suffolk County are killing all our ponds, rivers, and bays. Lawn fertilizers, pesticides, toxic plumes, volatile household chemicals and improperly disposed...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 24, 2014 | Cleaner Water
To: Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone From: The Membership of Save The Great South Bay Re: Water Quality on Long Island Dear Mr. Bellone, We of Save The Great South Bay applaud your leadership in helping to shine a light on the major issue threatening all of Long...
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 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 | Apr 18, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay applauds Lawrence Downes for his editorial piece in the New York Times For April 18th: Fire Island’s Lucky Break.   The breach / New Inlet is flushing and cleaning the bay, the evidence that it is causing any additional flooding is...
