Farming to Improve Water Quality
Written for the Long Island Sound Study’s Fall 2014 Update, this pair of articles provides great examples of how farming–both on land and at sea–can help reduce hypoxia and improve the Sound’s water quality.
Category: Water
Our Edgewood Bioswale is finished!
After nearly two weeks of labor and several rain delays, our bioswale at Edgewood School in New Haven is finished!
Now Is the Time! Check for Sewage Overflows
It’s pouring rain across our region, which makes this a great time to go outside and check to see how your local sewer infrastructure is holding up.
We’re building a bioswale! So what is that?
A man-made garden ditch specifically designed to capture and filter rainwater! Learn more about our New Haven project here.
People Power: Citizen Watchdogs Get the Job Done
2014 Hypoxia Review for Long Island Sound
While this summer is an indication of good news, we must continue the enormous challenge of pulling excess nitrogen out of the system.
Save the Sound releases Westchester water testing results
Monitoring finds dangerous levels of bacteria at Beaver Swamp Brook and Hutchinson River, cleaner beaches
How can you, keep the ocean blue?
Thanks to Hillary Kenyon for submitting this poem!