Press Archives - Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation

Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation elect new board member

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 by

Contact: Sara Davison, sara@friendsofgeorgicapond.org

Wainscott, NY. — September 17, 2021. The Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, Inc. announced that it has elected Sid Perkins as a new board member of the organization. Sid was introduced at the organization’s … Read more

Georgica Pond Management Plan Touts Success, Demands More

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by

The floating tractor knows as an aquatic weed harvester has been an important cog in the Friends of Georgica Pond’s fight to control algae blooms in the pond.

“The residents group that has organized and funded a multi-pronged attack on … Read more

Bad News for Water Bodies in Annual Report

Posted on April 16, 2021June 25, 2021 by

By Christopher Walsh April 15, 2021

A lone bright spot came in statistics regarding Georgica Pond, where a yearslong effort, including replacement of septic systems with new nitrogen-reducing models and the use of an aquatic weed harvester to … Read more

More Protection For Georgica Pond

Posted on August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 by

The Independent’s Stephen J. Kotz wrote an opinion piece bringing awareness to the excess runoff that spills into Georgica Pond. Rain that falls on Route 114, for example, wends its way through a concrete pipe and is emptied into the … Read more

Georgica Seeing Some Benefit From Cleanup Effort; Three Mile Harbor Could, Too

Posted on April 24, 2018April 30, 2018 by

A floating tractor that has been used the last two summers to skim thick clumps of aquatic weeds out of Georgica Pond may be helping the pond to avoid the dense blooms of toxic algae that appeared in previous years, … Read more

Attack on Algae Cited in Pond’s Improvement

Posted on December 13, 2017April 16, 2018 by

Efforts to restore Georgica Pond are proving successful, the East Hampton Town Trustees, who manage many of the town’s waterways on behalf of the public, were told at their meeting Monday.

Sara Davison, executive director of the Friends of Georgica