Increase NY’s Environmental Protection Fund to Clean Up the Western Sound
Fixing the sewers that are the main reason Westchester’s Long Island Sound beaches close so often is an expensive proposition.
Category: Water
Guest Post: Senator Blumenthal on Protecting Plum Island
This guest post by Senator Richard Blumenthal highlights the need for federal conservation measures to protect Plum Island. Save the Sound thanks Senator Blumenthal for his longstanding role as a champion of Plum Island.
A Blue Plan for Long Island Sound
There’s a lot going on in and around Long Island Sound. It’s 1320 square miles of saltwater and sun; beaches, ports, and marshes; sailboats, tankers, and lobster pots. To ensure a good and prosperous future for Long Island Sound, we need to build an inventory of our current uses and create a guide for the future.
Don’t Waste CT: Support Laws to Regulate Fracking Waste
Fracking fluid is full of some nasty toxic material. Benzene, lead, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene–these are a few of the two dozen known carcinogens and compounds that can be found in fracking dirty leftovers. Toxic mystery waste does not belong in our state. We need your help to keep it out.
Let’s Rebuild All U.S. Fish Populations and Prevent Overfishing
What Long Island Sound fish is a hard fighter, voracious eating machine, and plays baseball in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
For oxygen in the Sound, which is more important: the size of a sewage plant or its location?
The answer may surprise you.
Fridays in the Field #10: The Nature Conservancy’s Adam Whelchel, Part 2
In the second of this two-part post, Adam discusses using natural infrastructure and planning for Connecticut’s future.
Replacement of Mamaroneck Club’s Sewer is Essential
The biggest success of our water quality testing in Mamaroneck last summer was the discovery of a broken sewer pipe that was leaking raw sewage into Otter Creek, near where it empties into Mamaroneck Harbor.