Sunday, July 13: Westchester’s Long Island Sound beaches are open today. Saturday, July 12: Long Island Sound beaches in Westchester County are open today. It’s a beautiful summer day, so enjoy the water!
Westchester residents can learn directly and immediately about sewage spills that might alter their plans for being on the water.
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.
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.
Today residents of Old Saybrook turned out in record numbers and voted to purchase the long-embattled 1,000-acre forest called The Preserve.
Sunday Update: The beaches remain open and the weather could not be more beautiful! Westchester’s Long Island Sound beaches are open for swimming today, July 5th, 2014. Enjoy the water!
The 10 beaches listed below are closed today (Wednesday, July 3) because of pollution carried by the rain yesterday and last night.
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.
