NY & CT Long Island Sound Stakeholders Request Strengthened Sound Restoration Plan
Citizen Advisory Committee members ask for clear, focused blueprint for Long Island Sound
Category: Western Sound
Save the Sound & the Young Americans: a pilot partnership for education and outreach
Fall Patrols on western Long Island Sound
In the past week I went on two patrols of the Sound with local fishermen and Sound enthusiasts. Getting out on the water with local boaters is the best way to explore the many local treasures along our coastline and to learn about community concerns, challenges and opportunities.
Meet a Save the Sound Water Sampling Volunteer
This summer, Save the Sound completed its second water quality monitoring season in Westchester County, NY. We could not have done it without the work of our volunteer water quality team!
Open Beaches Belie Chronic Pollution Problems
Beaches in Westchester & Nassau counties were closed preemptively far fewer times in 2014 than in 2013. But don’t be fooled. The improvement is not a sign that the water is getting cleaner. In fact, it’s not a lasting improvement at all.
The Sound’s mid-July oxygen readings are some of the best ever. Why? And will it hold out in a traditionally brutal August?
Leading Ecologist and Author to Speak on Coastal Resiliency, Saturday at the Rye Meeting House
Mount Vernon Must Notify Public of Sewage in Hutchinson & Fix It Now
On a Saturday in June, an anonymous citizen watchdog alerted Save the Sound to a sewage overflow entering the Hutchinson River from Mount Vernon’s sewage system. The report sounded our alarm.