Good news to start the summer: Oxygen levels throughout the Sound are high
Water quality in the western Sound is unusually good to start the summer: Dissolved oxygen readings were above 5 milligrams per liter throughout the Sound in late June.
Category: Western Sound
Sound Swim Alerts: Our Goal is to End Pollution at Westchester’s Beaches
Planning a trip to Westchester’s Long Island Sound beaches is an iffy proposition. Pollution shuts some of them regularly. Others almost never close. All are threatened by occasional and unexpected sewage mishaps.
On Long Island Sound Day, New Pledge Empowers Residents to Save the Sound
We’re celebrating Long Island Sound Day and the official opening of beach season this weekend in style: welcome to our new Long Island Sound Pledge!
Keep a Healthy Garden and Lawn: Tips for Sound-friendly Gardening
The Long Island Sound cleanup is so massive that there’s nothing one person can do to help, right? Wrong.
Great Neck Sewage Treatment Plant Fixes Problems, No Longer Violating Clean Water Act
Press Release: Save the Sound Grades NY Sewage Treatment Plants
Save the Sound Grades New York’s Sewage Treatment Plants Plants Must Reduce Nitrogen to Long Island Sound by 2017 to Heal Dead Zone
Guest Post: Citizens Summit to Look from Past to Future of the Sound
Dr. Drew Carey of WaterVision provides a history of Sound management and urges citizens to join him at the Long Island Sound Citizens Summit to forge the latest chapter in the Sound’s great legacy.
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.