Meet a Save the Sound Water Sampling Volunteer
This summer, Save the Sound completed its second water quality monitoring season in Westchester County, NY. We could not have done it without the work of our volunteer water quality team!
Category: Western Sound
Open Beaches Belie Chronic Pollution Problems
Beaches in Westchester & Nassau counties were closed preemptively far fewer times in 2014 than in 2013. But don’t be fooled. The improvement is not a sign that the water is getting cleaner. In fact, it’s not a lasting improvement at all.
The Sound’s mid-July oxygen readings are some of the best ever. Why? And will it hold out in a traditionally brutal August?
Leading Ecologist and Author to Speak on Coastal Resiliency, Saturday at the Rye Meeting House
Mount Vernon Must Notify Public of Sewage in Hutchinson & Fix It Now
On a Saturday in June, an anonymous citizen watchdog alerted Save the Sound to a sewage overflow entering the Hutchinson River from Mount Vernon’s sewage system. The report sounded our alarm.
Sewage Pollution Right to Know Act: Keeping NY’s Beachgoers Safe & Informed
Westchester residents can learn directly and immediately about sewage spills that might alter their plans for being on the water.
Save the Sound Volunteer Helps Stop Sewage Spill at Marshlands in Rye
Prompt action by a Save the Sound volunteer and the Westchester County Department of Environmental Facilities resulted in a repair to a manhole had spilled raw sewage into Marshlands Conservancy nature sanctuary last month.
Save the Sound to Host Water Quality Forum in Mamaroneck
Join Save the Sound’s staff for a discussion of Long Island Sound water quality issues at a community forum in Mamaroneck on Wednesday evening, July 16.