A group of property owners around East Hampton’s Georgica Pond has raised $359,000 for a research project intended to identify the causes of the pond’s recent degradation and toxic algal blooms and develop a remediation plan. The project has the support of
The dead turtles, about 100 of them, started washing ashore near here in late April. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The dead turtles, about 100 of them, started washing ashore near here in late April. Then came the dead fish, in numbers no one
What began as a mild green discoloration in early August and intensified to the largest blue-green algae bloom ever recorded in Georgica Pond by early September has finally come to an end. In between, the bloom was accompanied by no oxygen conditions,
What is clear is that environmental organizations and truly independent experts must be brought in before big money is committed Water quality has been in the news this summer, thanks in part to Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone’s seizing on it in his
Originally published in the East Hampton Star. Wainscott September 14, 2015 To the Editor: We attended the East Hampton Town Trustees meeting on Sept. 8 and were dismayed by the trustees’ refusal to promptly open Georgica Pond to the ocean to