Overall failure rates drop, but high bacteria counts persist despite another dry monitoring season For the second straight year, overall failure rates dropped in Save the Sound’s annual fecal indicator bacteria monitoring season. Of the 745 water samples collected by staff and volunteer community scientists from 66 locations from Greenwich, CT, through Westchester County and […]
The section of the Byram River where the students stood was only shin deep. Still, David Abreu could tell they were fully immersed in their work. “I was watching them picking up rocks, using the kick nets, grabbing all the bugs from the nets. You could see their faces brighten up when they realized, ‘Oh […]
Save the Sound’s 10th season of conducting fecal bacteria monitoring in the western Long Island Sound was our biggest yet, with 777 water samples collected. The results from the 2023 monitoring season show that 64 percent of the samples collected across 65 sites from Greenwich, CT, through Westchester County, and into Queens and Nassau County, failed to meet […]
A look at the role of water companies and state law in protecting open space in Connecticut, from Kat Fiedler, Save the Sound’s Peter B. Cooper Legal Fellow: When you think about land conservation, you probably think of land trusts, state forests, or municipal parks. But in Connecticut, there is another important conservation partner: drinking […]
Our staff and volunteers have tested 51 sites in Westchester County and Greenwich for water-borne bacteria. Here’s what they found.
