by Ava Herrera | Mar 17, 2025 | Cleaner Water
Photo: Mike Busch As we all know, The Great South Bay has been absorbing waste from leaky cesspools for far too long, leading to brown tides, contamination of ground water, and unsafe swimming conditions. Thankfully, hope is restored by the Clean Water Plan! On March...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Feb 27, 2025
Join us on Friday, March 7 from 9-11 AM at the View in Oakdale for an insightful Speaker Series on the next steps in implementing Suffolk County’s Clean Water Plan with sewering and cesspools. With the hugely successful passage of Prop #2 in November that provided...
by Save The Great South Bay | Jul 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water, Education, Water Quality
We stand shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues at Group for the East End, and many other local environmental groups, in opposition of the two bills proposed by County Executive Steve Bellone that would raid the County’s Drinking Water Protection Program for the...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 26, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured
Seriously, when is Suffolk County going to stop poisoning its marshes with methoprene? It kills a lot more than mosquitoes — like for instance many of the creatures that eat mosquitoes, like the Seaside Dragonlet. ‘ Why is the county spending...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 5, 2018 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Suffolk County Legislature once again approved the use of Methoprene spray for mosquito control, with regular spraying to be performed over 20,000 acres of salt marshes (that’s 30 square miles, folks) on a regular basis...
