by Wayne Horsley | Oct 12, 2019 | Fixing Habitats, The Breach, The New Inlet
Engineered Inlet with Storm Gate at Gilgo State Park A sad fact is the Great South Bay is still very ill. New York State and Suffolk County is valiantly fighting the good fight to reduce nitrogen in our enriched heated bay. Removing the nitrogen, upgrading...
by Howard Ryan | Jun 26, 2018 | Advocacy, Algal Blooms, Bioat Sewage, Boat Sewage, Cleaner Water, Education, Featured, Fishing and Boating, Fixing Habitats, Hurricane Sandy, Lawn Fertilizer, News, Nitrogen Pollution, Pesticides, Pollution, Save Raitan Bay, Septic Tanks, Shellfish, Toxic Plumes
Facts: 2018 Cuomo Priority: Full PCB Clean Up of the Hudson River Cuomo Announces $10.4 Mil to Clean LI’s Waters With Shellfish A New Start for New Jersey on Water Pollution & Flooding Both New York and New Jersey have witnessed some great recent State level...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 22, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured
Many of us (about 35 based on RSVPs, seeing people there) attended “Sandy’s Silver Lining,” A Public Forum on The Breach, held at Bellport Middle School on the 21st between 9:30 – 12:00. The response was strong even though it was the last...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
For over a year now, Prof. Charles Flagg and his research team from SOMAS (The Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) have been monitoring the breach of Fire Island at Bellport Bay, also known as The New Inlet, or The Old Inlet, since from the late...
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...
