A higher than normal flood tide that rose over the seawall dropped an unusual bit of flotsam at Mamaroneck’s Harbor Island Park in late February: tiny, white, plastic pellets, like tapioca. A million of them, by Katherine Desmond’s rough estimate.
The challenge of protecting the shoreline against coastal storms is attracting plenty of attention this spring.
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.
Water quality in Long Island Sound was bad during the summer of 2012, after a number of years when conditions were not so terrible.
The recently released year-end water quality report for Long Island Sound confirmed what seemed obvious in August: when measured by hypoxia – the annual drop in dissolved oxygen caused by nitrogen in treated sewage – the summer of 2012 was awful.
Yesterday, Save the Sound filed an appeal of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation consent order that relaxes the limits on nitrogen dumped into Long Island Sound by the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District.
It’s no surprise, but water quality in western Long Island Sound rebounded nicely in September, a month after conditions were their worst in years.
