The scores of beach closings at Westchester County’s Long Island Sound beaches over the summer caught the attention recently of a civic group called the Larchmont Mamaroneck Local Summit, which organized its monthly breakfast discussion for October around the topic.
Water quality as measured by dissolved oxygen is approaching its typical summertime low in the far western end of Long Island Sound.
Every time we give a presentation about hypoxia and the Long Island Sound cleanup, we are asked some variation of the same question:
The biggest sewage treatment plant impacting Long Island Sound recently completed an upgrade that is expected to lead to a significant improvement in the western Sound’s water quality.
The Governor has proposed to allocate $997 million to the Clean Water Fund.
Water quality in Long Island Sound was bad during the summer of 2012, after a number of years when conditions were not so terrible.
Among all the Long Island Sound water quality data released recently showing the summer of 2012 to have been particularly bad, there were two data sets that indicated something slightly different.
