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SCERP: Nitrogenous Waste From Groundwater Polluted By Septic Tank Seepage and Lawn Fertilizer Creating Seasonal Dead Zones in Waters All Around Long Island, Especially The Long Island Sound
Anything in red, orange or yellow on this map is a dead zone
We frankly have no choice but to address this issue, if not for our waters, for our drinking water. We are living right on top of it. The same thing that is polluting and killing our bays — the waste water, the pesticides ( 117 of them ), the pharmaceuticals we throw out bu tend up in our ground water, the toxic plumes from Superfund clean up sites, and from household hazardous waste like cleaners, paints, and heavy metals — is also threatening our drinking water as the polluted water above seeps down into our aquifers and literally poisons our wells.
Long Island’s Drinking Water: Threats and Solutions – A Presentation From The Long Island Clean Water Partnership
Two of the charter members of The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, The Citizen’s Campaign For The Environment, and The Group For The East End, offer this overview of the state of Long Island’s waters — what is polluting them and what we can do about it.
Going Green With Bob Deluca, WPPB, 9-27-13 Long Island’s Water Quality Problems
"Going Green" With Bob DeLuca Airs This FridayListen LIVE Friday, September 27th at 11:05 a.m. This months topic: United for Clean Water Action.In the wake of one of the worst summers for harmful and via Peconicpublicbroadcasting
The Long Island Clean Water Partnership Announced / What You Can Do
As New York continues to recover from Sandy and rebuilds, we are now also faced with a Long Island that is rapidly becoming unlivable due to nitrogenous waste in the ground water, the 117 pesticides in our drinking water, and the pharmaceuticals we throw away or flush down the toilet. The nitrogenous waste is from septic tanks and from lawn fertilizers, from the over 195 small sewage treatment plants scattered across the island, and from antiquated or crippled sewage treatment plants like the one in Bay Park, damaged severely by Sandy.
How Can I Help Save Long Island’s Waters?
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 contributing to brown tide, red tide, rust tide, red tide and blue green algae, and these have been killing our bays and in some cases rendering the water toxic. Click here to see what Nitrogen Free recommends for lawn care as they work to support Save Barnegat Bay. What ever bay we are speaking of, on Long Island or not, the issues are the same — too much nitrogen in the groundwater from fertilizer and septic seepage leading to algal blooms and dying bays.
Long Island’s Drinking Water: Threats and Solutions
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 therefore our drinking water is at peril. Because our ground water is polluted, so are our lakes, streams and bays. Algal blooms wiping out habitats in our bays, shellfish beds closed because of all the nitrogenous waste now in our water. This presentation is by Adrienne Esposito of The Citizen’s Campaign for The Environment. It powerfully presents the problem we as Long Islanders face, and what we can do to bring Long Island back from the brink of disaster.
Pouring Rain Again — Many Long Island Beaches Will Remain Closed Because of Polluted Ground Water
The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point. Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, and with more and more beaches closed to swimming for longer and longer periods.
From Newsday 6-08-13 — Carl LoBue and Christopher Gobler Weigh in On Algal Blooms This Spring and How the Breach Is (Thus Far) Sparing The Great South Bay From Brown Tide
The dreaded brown tide is back in some South Shore bays, threatening everything from eelgrass to scallops, but Great South Bay has been spared so far thanks to superstorm Sandy, a marine scientist said Friday.
72,000 Ladies Released at the Mall of America
The management of the most well known mall in the nation has released more than seventy thousand ladybugs inside the mall in order to control pests on the tropical plants living there. Read: instead of using a pesticide.
What Mother Nature and The New Inlet Can’t Do — A Bay in Peril
With The New Inlet, Mother Nature’s true gift was to give us but a glimpse of what the Great South Bay was and could be again. It’s a challenge to us to take action. Next summer, will The New Inlet even be there, whether because of nature or man? Then what? The bay starts to die again. Here’s what Mother Nature alone can’t fix, and what we must fix if we want this bay all the way back, New Inlet or no New Inlet:
What Each of Us Can Do This Spring To Help Our Local Waters
The Great South Bay is where the results of all our human activities end up, as is true for all our bays, rivers and ponds. Given how many of Long Island’s waters are under stress, it is very important that each of us do what we can to limit the damage.
Vision Long Island Helping To Map Out A Sustainable Future
Vision Long Island is holding its third and final public meeting tonight at The Southampton Town Hall between 7-9 tonight March 6th.  The non-profit organization, dedicated to building a sustainable future for Long Island, is gathering public opinion as it puts...