02.27.2015 Editorials Editorial: State needs to step in to clean up Peconic Estuary Words such as “crisis” and “urgent” often lose their currency when public officials spend them as freely as sailors on sprees. But credit Shelter Island Supervisor Jim Dougherty —...
11.21.2014 Editorials Editorial: A quality water-quality idea Because it’s not something that’s very visible to the untrained eye — or even, really, the trained eye — deteriorating water quality can go overlooked and underemphasized. When you...
11.12.2014 Environment Could Community Preservation Fund be used to protect water, too? While lawmakers have proposed legislation to deal with deteriorating water quality such as mandating the use of costly wastewater treatment systems, one East End legislator has an idea for...
09.26.2014 Environment Clean water volunteers #toastthecoast All week long, North Fork natives have been raising a glass to the coastlines they call dear, joining water lovers across the nation for the 26th Annual National Estuaries...
08.22.2014 Environment Looking elsewhere to restore L.I’s surface waters to health It’s a well-known story around these parts: One summer, around the mid-1980s, an explosion of harmful algae began to appear, sucking oxygen out of bay waters causing a die-off...
08.22.2014 Environment See how other areas are addressing water treatment Here’s a breakdown of how three states close to Long Island are finding solutions to water quality issues.
08.03.2014 Columns Guest Spot: The bottom line — our water is polluted Any conversation about sewage management in Suffolk County should begin with the current state of our waters. In conformance with the federal Clean Water Act, the New York State...
08.02.2014 Environment County hosting video contest on water quality, $1,000 prize Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone is seeking help in informing the community about nitrogen pollution in a creative and lively way — by hosting a film contest.