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Georgica Pond Residents Fund Research

Posted on December 23, 2015April 7, 2018 by mhnsn1

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 … Read more

Posted in eNewsletter

Long Island Sees a Crisis as It Floats to the Surface

Posted on December 23, 2015April 5, 2018 by mhnsn1

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 … Read more

Posted in eNewsletter Tagged turtles

The End of Blue-Green Algae in Georgica Pond for 2015

Posted on October 13, 2015April 5, 2018 by mhnsn1

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 … Read more

Posted in eNewsletter Tagged blue-green algae

Water Quality, Carefully

Posted on September 17, 2015April 23, 2018 by mhnsn1

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 … Read more

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Do What Is Needed

Posted on September 14, 2015April 23, 2018 by mhnsn1

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 … Read more

Posted in eNewsletter Tagged algae blooms

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