Progress with electricity and water quality proposals Attention to environmental concerns is growing here, with some positive results. We are enthusiastic about a $100,000 study of an electric “microgrid” in East Hampton Town, which could provide clean power and better electrical service
Georgica Pond will only be brought back to health through new approaches to waste management, landscaping practices, and road runoff. That was the consensus of a meeting Friday at Town Hall that included officials of East Hampton Town and Village, the town
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,