Great South Bay Oyster Project
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Habitat Restoration
We advocate for healing the creeks that feed our bay, for bay-friendly yards, for helping to return a shellfishing industry to the Great South Bay, and for the deployment of modern wastewater treatment technologies to address the problems caused by 500,000 cesspools and septic tanks, as well as the 197 large scale septic systems in malls, apartment complexes and locally.
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Lend a hand! Join our Oyster Project Team and help revive The Great South Bay.
Partnering With Oyster Growers
Of course, nothing happens without cleaner water. That is why getting rid of our cesspools and septic tanks, healing our creeks, tackling runoff, and practicing natural lawn care is so important.
Please contact us with any suggestions you may have. You can also donate our efforts. We want to apply the latest techniques in aquaculture to revitalize our bay, our economy and our local culture.
We advocate for healing the creeks that feed our bay, for bay-friendly yards, for helping to return a shell fishing industry to the Great South Bay, and for the deployment of modern wastewater treatment technologies to address the problems caused by 500,000 cesspools and septic tanks, as well as the 197 large scale septic systems in malls, apartment complexes and locally.
Where You Can Get Fresh, Long Island Blue Point Oysters
- Neguntatogue Oysters (Lindenhurst) – call or text Keith & Nicole at 631-275-8046
- Blue Island Oysters (Sayville)- Call Chris at (631) 563-1330 for availability
- Maris Stella Oysters (Captree) – call or text Sixto at 516-939-5545
- Little A’s (Bay Shore) – call or text Michael at 917-526-1900
- Red Tiger (West Islip) – call or text Lou at 646-228-6273
The Making Of An Oyster Sanctuary
Site Evaluation
Establishing the Sanctuary
Enhancing and Measuring for Success
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Recent Progress On Habitat Restoration
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.
August 19th — SCERP’s News Release on “Rust Tide”
Rust Tide – toxic to marine life – is back in our eastern bays. Groundwater polluted by septic tank seepage is to blame. The New Inlet seems to be protecting the GSB from it, however, by helping to flush the nitrogenous waste laden water out.
Our bays can’t take much more of this
The Breach Report, 8-13-13: So What Are We To Call It? The Breach, The Old Inlet, The New Inlet?
As we began to learn about the breach, how barrier beaches in fact behave and evolve, and began to see how it was actually a lifeline for an otherwise dying bay, saw that it was flushing Bellport Bay especially, and bringing back the bay we knew, we began to use the term ‘breach’ ironically. “Life’s a Breach!” reads one bumper sticker. Against all the hysteria leveled at it, people posted ‘The Breach ate my baby!,’ or ‘The Breach cheats at golf,’ or ‘The Breach stole my woman!” We will be having a Breach Party this Saturday in fact, keeping with the spirit of this.
Breach Report 08-07-13 : CBS News Reports “Mounting Debate,” Features County Legislator vs. Almost Everyone Else
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy. Without that, there is no story. You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of 600. The one person who stands up to say that the breach must be closed because his apartment complex was flooded this winter is the person how gets surrounded by microphones. That’s exactly what happened in March at a Town Hall in Bellport about The New Inlet. Nearly unanimous support after 2 1/2 hours, but I had reporters actually say to me, ‘where’s the conflict/story in that?’ When we wade into public policy debates, where the science most matters, it is truly corrosive to science and civic life to see this happen.
The Breach Report 8-05-13: Fisherman Michael Busch Interviewed By News 12 on The Old Inlet
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.
Long Island’s South Shore Wastewater Infrastructure Problem
Carl LoBue's posts on the Save The Great South Bay Facebook page always get me thinking, and googling. And this one is no exception: Carl LoBue, on the relationship between the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant and Point Lookout seaweed: Although the configuration of...