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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says he wants to see the County make a major shift toward nitrogen...Read More >>

One Southampton Town Trustee has taken a big step towards reducing his nitrogen footprint...Read More >>

State environmental conservation officers and police fanned out around Long Island...Read More >>

The Town of East Hampton is preparing a sensible plan to help fight nitrogen pollution in area waters...Read More >>

East Hampton Town officials this week unveiled progressive new legislation that will mandate all new commercial...Read More >>

Every so often, ego clashes in Albany produce something good....Read More >>

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants $2 billion to address some of the nation’s oldest...Read More >>

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A proposed Furrows Road transfer site that would accept, process and transfer hundreds of tons of solid waste...Read More >>

Funding in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed 2017 state budget for major programs...Read More >>

A chemical of growing concern to health experts has been detected throughout...Read More >>

Last month, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced the approval...Read More >>

Cutting nitrogen pollution in Suffolk’s eastern South Shore Estuary Reserve...Read More >>

A second private drinking water well in Manorville has been found to be contaminated...Read More >>

Suffolk County is permitting outdated sewage treatment at dozens of commercial sites...Read More >>

A massive fish kill carpeted the Shinnecock Canal, both north and south of the locks...Read More >>

Drinking water standards for a solvent and probable carcinogen found in Long Island’s water...Read More >>

No one questions the need to reduce nitrogen in local waters...Read More >>

For all of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy on the New York region four years ago...Read More >>

Water quality is of paramount importance to Long Island and its sole-source aquifer...Read More >>

As East End towns prepare to vote this fall on whether to extend and expand a major land...Read More >>

There is no more debate in Suffolk County on whether action must be taken to reduce nitrogen...Read More >>

A ballot proposition to extend the East End’s 2-percent real estate transfer tax is one all voters...Read More >>

State health and environment officials pressed the federal government yesterday to expand a program to survey drinking water...Read More >>

Paper or plastic, it’ll cost you a nickel per bag at store checkouts under a bill passed...Read More >>

A dangerous algal bloom has spread across the Peconic Bay and all of its waterways...Read More >>

The Village of Patchogue is due to receive $18 million in federal and state grant money...Read More >>

There is no more debate in Suffolk County on whether action must be taken to reduce nitrogen...Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed key legislation today that amends the Suffolk County Sanitary Code...Read More >>

Cuomo vows legal action to block feds’ plan to add to sludge-dumping...Read More >>

Southampton Town officials released the first draft of the Community Preservation Fund Water Quality Improvement Project Plan this week...Read More >>

Sometimes slow and steady wins the race. That’s the principle behind a pilot program by Suffolk County to replace some 550 failing cesspools...Read More >>

Scientists at Stony Brook University say they are testing new septic treatment systems that could reduce the amount of nitrogen released into groundwater... Read More >>

By now, Long Island’s elected officials and policymakers should know how best to protect our region’s precious drinking water... Read More >>

Senator Ken LaValle and Assemblyman Fred Thiele passed legislation which would authorize Suffolk County to allow certain underwater lands... Read More >>

The state has launched an investigation into the renewed presence of the carcinogen cadmium at a West Islip Superfund site... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone recently announced that the county will receive $1.25 million in grant funding from New York State for further water quality protection... Read More >>

A new series of short videos highlights the threat of nitrogen pollution to drinking water and wildlife. Produced for the Nature Conservancy on Long Island... Read More >>

Brookhaven has adopted a law requiring upgraded sewage treatment systems near lakes and rivers to reduce the flow of harmful nitrogen... Read More >>

The Long Island Clean Water Partnership hosted its fifth annual "Water We Going To Do?" conference in Hauppauge Thursday.... Read More >>

After decades of declining water quality and a septic system that almost overflowed into the Peconic Bay last year, Suffolk County has a new wastewater... Read More >>

The Suffolk County Legislature approved the transfer of $82,623 from Suffolk County Water Quality Protection and Restoration Program to Brookhaven.... Read More >>

Suffolk County is working with New York Sea Grant to analyze ways to reduce warm weather algae blooms, which can sicken people and kill marine life... Read More >>

A bill reauthorizing the National Estuary Program and giving it $26.5 million in funding was signed into law by President Obama on Friday... Read More >>

Nassau County officials on Friday touted their new proposal to send treated wastewater from the Sandy-damaged Bay Park plant to an ocean-outfall pipe... Read More >>

The Southold Town board discussed a plan proposed by Greenport Village trustees to expand the village sewer system Tuesday... Read More >>

Suffolk County leads New York in toxic algae in fresh water lakes and ponds as the area is seeing an increase in the algae that can cause sickness... Read More >>

Suffolk officials on Monday presented a draft of a new code that would legalize new nitrogen-reducing septic systems for individual homes... Read More >>

The algae blamed by scientists for last year‘s massive fish kills is blooming again this spring in the Peconic River— big time.... Read More >>

To follow our recent discussion of agriculture in our area, let’s consider a vital but slowly growing component known as aquaculture... Read More >>

Suffolk County health officials are warning residents to stay out of the water at Laurel Lake due to confirmed cyanobacteria blooms... Read More >>

Long Island's last remaining duck farm has asked the county for $250,000 for a building to keep its waste from fouling waterways... Read More >>

In an effort to reduce the amount of nitrogen getting into bays and other water bodies of Suffolk County and also to protect groundwater... Read More >>

Long Island has a nitrogen problem. It’s fouling the water in which we fish, swim and play.... Read More >>

Suffolk County voters could be asked in November to help fund water quality improvement initiatives through a surcharge on water usage... Read More >>

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the beach renourishment project at Smith Point County Park is complete... Read More >>

With winter flounder said to be almost nonexistent, Anne McElroy of Stony Brook University?s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.. Read More >>

Based on scientific theory and the unfortunate events that have borne it out —algal blooms, fish kills, shellfish die-offs, and other evidence of polluted waterways... Read More >>

The Moriches Bay Project has received a boost in fundraising efforts in the form of a $1,500 donation from the Discovery Land Company... Read More >>

Today, Suffolk County Executive unveiled his proposed 2017-2019 Capital Budget and Program... Read More >>

Suffolk County wants to impose an annual fee on water usage to fund a new countywide district that would attempt to reduce nitrogen pollution from thousands of homes... Read More >>

The combined efforts of East Hampton Village and the Ladies Village Improvement Society to upgrade the health of the village’s greens and ponds got a boost... Read More >>

Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) Increased To $300 million; Additional $200 Million For Water Quality Improvements... Read More >>

Nearly half the wetlands along Long Island Sound in New York State have disappeared in the last 130 years... Read More >>

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Monday called for the EPA and U.S. Department of Agriculture to prioritize federal funds in a recently released “Nitrogen-Reduction Strategy”... Read More >>

Efforts to preserve the Peconic Estuary continue as funds were secured in the New York State Budget to help protect the valuable resource... Read More >>

The New York State Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Southampton Town zoning board of appeals in regard to the proposed controversial Sand Land... Read More >>

Nassau County has a dirty little secret on its North Shore. We all know Long Island has a problem with nitrogen in its waters... Read More >>

Last year was not a good one for the South Fork’s bays and ponds. Fish-kills, a large turtle die-off... Read More >>

The breach that cut through Fire Island during superstorm Sandy is yielding new treasures... Read More >>

The fight to prevent Plum Island’s sale to a private developer — an effort local officials have been pushing for several years... Read More >>

The state DEC ordered Northrop Grumman late last week to speed up treatment of a contaminated groundwater plume... Read More >>

Northport Village is about to enter the final phase of a long-term sewer system upgrade... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced today a lottery which will be held for the second phase of the County’s Septic Demonstration Program... Read More >>

Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern announced that he will make it a priority in Congress to fight for federal EPA grants to help extend mainline sewage systems... Read More >>

Septic systems and cesspools are the greatest contributors to nitrogen pollution in North Shore watersheds leading to the Long Island Sound... Read More >>

“What were we going to do? Ask them to replant the trees?” So replied Brookhaven Town supervisor and former county legislator Ed Romaine ... Read More >>

Suffolk County lawmakers and local environmentalists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers’ latest plan... Read More >>

Progress on cleaning the waters of Long Island Sound has been hard-won and steady. But the federal Environmental Protection Agency says... Read More >>

A state superfund site in West Islip that had undergone decades of treatment for groundwater and soil contamination poses a new threat... Read More >>

The state released a sweeping redraft of its solid-waste regulations on Monday — a proposal in part designed to stop illegal dumping... Read More >>

From the tap, a glass of Long Island’s water is cool and refreshing—descriptions that any soft drink or craft-beer company would love to have on their label.... Read More >>

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of water quality initiatives Thursday, which includes a $6 million study for the management of groundwater... Read More >>

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a series of aggressive water quality initiatives to protect both the public health and the environment... Read More >>

Read the label on your lawn fertilizer before you put it down. That was the advice from Matthew Rizzo of liwater.org’s Jump In campaign ... Read More >>

Two state legislators are seeking $3 million in the state budget for a study of Nassau County’s groundwater... Read More >>

An official study of last summer’s fish kills in the Peconic River, which were attributed to a variety of factors, confirmed that the biggest culprit was nitrogen-fed algal bloom... Read More >>

By any measure, the first year of King Kullen’s program to collect unused and expired drugs was a smashing success... Read More >>

“Greenport, like towns on Staten Island, prospered from the oyster.” So wrote John Kochisst, author of “Oystering from New York to Boston,” in 1973... Read More >>

Scientists say they now know what caused the large fish kills in the Peconic River on Long Island. As WCBS 880's Sophia Hall reported, 300,000 fish died ... Read More >>

With issues including nitrogen loading in East End waters of critical concern to residents, a standing-room-only crowd packed Suffolk County Community College... Read More >>

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the US Navy and Northrop Grumman to provide the state and a local water district access to monitoring wells... Read More >>

The Long Island Water Conference assures residents that there has been no lead contamination in their water supply for over 30 years... Read More >>

The Long Island Regional Planning Council and the state Department of Environmental Conservation will jointly host three public hearings next month... Read More >>

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy today announced their bipartisan legislation... Read More >>

As part of the buildup to his State of the State address and budget presentation Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed a variety of initiatives... Read More >>

Newsday’s editorial “Crucial steps against pollution” [Nov. 27] did not address the critical needs of Nassau’s North Shore... Read More >>

State and Suffolk County officials are preparing to take the next steps in a plan to build a multimillion-dollar sewage treatment system... Read More >>

Following are key elements of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s $154.5 billion spending plan for 2016-17. The State Legislature is expected to vote... Read More >>

Sewage disposal and water quality impacts took center stage last night during the Southold Planning Board's first public hearing... Read More >>

Feces. Excrement. Poop. Whatever name you want to call it, Long Islanders are swimming, boating and living among it... Read More >>

Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine is announcing the concept of nitrogen protection zones throughout the town... Read More >>

Babylon Town has secured $1 million in sewer infrastructure money from Suffolk County that will be used for a Wyandanch park... Read More >>

So, you don’t get excited about revisions to solid-waste regulations. We get it. You’re not a policy wonk or ardent environmentalist... Read More >>

The fact that state officials are close to a deal with Nassau County on the Bay Park sewage treatment plant is good news... Read More >>

Suffolk County and The Nature Conservancy of Long Island are joining together to create a mini man-made wetland in Cold Spring Harbor... Read More >>

State authorities say alleged environmental violations at the Sandy-damaged Bay Park and Long Beach sewage-treatment plants could be resolved... Read More >>

The Community Preservation Fund, which has been used to protect over 10,000 acres of land on the East End... Read More >>

The state is planning to release proposed regulations next year aimed at halting illegal dumping of the kind that Suffolk prosecutors say... Read More >>

A $1.8 million award for the Town of Babylon and a $450,000 stipend for the Town of North Hempstead were among the $75 million in grants... Read More >>

Dozens of privately owned sewage-treatment plants have violated pollution standards repeatedly over a four-year period... Read More >>

A Nature Conservancy-led initiative to help address the problem of excess nitrogen in Long Island Sound is the beneficiary of... Read More >>

Suffolk officials will install a high-tech wastewater treatment system at Meschutt Beach County Park in Hampton Bays... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced today the Suffolk County Department of Health Services was awarded $337,000... Read More >>

Long Island waters have seen yet another massive fishkill, with fish seen floating near the shores of Glen Cove Creek... Read More >>

As an outgrowth of County Executive Steve Bellone’s Reclaim Our Waters Initiative, the Suffolk County Health Department has undertaken... Read More >>

Kevin McAllister is once again lobbying Suffolk County to take methoprene out of its mosquito spraying plan... Read More >>

Workers made their way to East Quogue last week to install a new state-of-the-art septic system, one of four new sewage treatment units... Read More >>

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. It is a problem more befit an ancient mariner... Read More >>

Thousands of dead bunker fish and hundreds of diamondback turtles washed ashore last May in Peconic Bay.... Read More >>

On the first Monday in November, New York baymen take their boats out in the dark to carefully considered scalloping spots... Read More >>

County Executive Steve Bellone signed a ban on microbeads in personal care products into law yesterday, making Suffolk the third county... Read More >>

With advanced wastewater treatment alternatives a hot topic in Southold, one Mattituck man who won the Suffolk County lottery.... Read More >>

Hamptons estates dominate the list of Suffolk's biggest residential water users, a trend that is straining water infrastructure.... Read More >>

Citing increased levels of bacteria, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is closing or limiting the harvest of shellfish.... Read More >>

The Long Island Sound Study has released a new Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for restoring and protecting.... Read More >>

This year there have been a number of fish kills and harmful algal blooms in the Peconics and Shinnecock Bay.... Read More >>

The Southampton Town Trustees agreed Monday to survey the adult scallop population in a series of waterways.... Read More >>

On Friday, 20 young Shelter Island “citizen scientists” will be deployed at North Ferry and Bass Creek at Mashomack Preserve taking samples....Read More >>

The owners of a Bridgehampton sand mine are appealing state officials' decision to deny a planned expansion of the mine.... Read More >>

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Shellfisheries Section has downgraded approximately 20 acres of bottomland.... Read More >>

As Roseanne Roseannadanna of “Saturday Night Live” might say if she were with us today, “What’s all this fuss about blue-green algae?”....Read More >>

A panel including Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell....Read More >>

A growing group that already includes 30 environmentalists and community leaders, including State Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr.... Read More >>

Long Island's first large-scale commercial indoor food waste processor has moved a step closer to construction after languishing for two years..... Read More >>

The East Hampton Town Trustees were approached recently about allowing a small pilot oyster-growing program.... Read More >>

The Long Island Water Conference (LIWC), an Island-wide organization comprised of representatives and advocates from Long Island’s.... Read More >>

Within the next five to seven years, all the animal disease research that is being done on Plum Island will be moved to a brand new laboratory.... Read More >>

Leona McQueen used to throw prescription medications in the trash when they expired or were no longer needed.... Read More >>

Georgica Pond will remain closed to crabbing until further notice, the East Hampton Town Trustees decided at their meeting on Tuesday.... Read More >>

Suffolk County officials made a pit stop at Meschutt Beach in Hampton Bays last week to discuss a new septic system for The Beach Hut.... Read More >>

Members of a Long Island group are calling on officials to take immediate action to improve the Island's water quality....Read More >>

The East End Supervisors and Mayors Association (EESMA) is pushing an initiative with county and state officials to approve advanced septic systems.... Read More >>

For homeowners interested in a more environmentally friendly septic system, Peconic Green Growth is offering to install.... Read More >>

Rob Weltner, president of Freeport-based Operation SPLASH, spoke on Sept. 3, 2015, about the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant....Read More >>

Environmentalists say they will go to court next week to force Suffolk County to return nearly $30 million to its sewer fund.... Read More >>

New York's plans for how to spend an additional $210 million in federal aid remain unclear, three months after federal, state and local....Read More >>

A month after the East Hampton Town Trustees closed Georgica Pond in East Hampton to crabbing due to a dense bloom of cyanobacteria.... Read More >>

The state’s highest court won’t review an appellate court ruling that declared illegal Suffolk County government’s “borrowing” of $30 million.... Read More >>

On August 20, 2015, County Executive Steve Bellone was joined by Legislator Leslie Kennedy, Environmentalists, and Suffolk officials.... Read More >>

Several recent developments offer both urgency and hope regarding the condition of water quality on Long Island.... Read More >>

Oxygen levels remain critically low to nonexistent along a stretch of the Peconic River that has seen two massive fish kills in recent weeks, creating a.... Read More >>

Thousands of dead bunker fish blanketed the shores of Flanders Bay last month, following the mass die-off of hundreds of diamondback turtles nearby... Read More >>

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Thousands and thousands of dead, smelly bunker fish are floating in the Peconic River and washing up on the.... Read More >>

The second large fish kill in two weeks has inundated parts of the Peconic River with thousands of dead bunker baitfish after oxygen levels in the.... Read More >>

Mystery — if there was really a question — solved. County lawmakers, scientists and environmentalists all agree nitrogen overloading in local waterways.... Read More >>

Toxic blue-green algae is blooming out of control in Long Island waters, killing wildlife and keeping people out of lakes this summer.... Read More >>

County lawmakers, scientists and environmentalists acknowledge nitrogen overloading in local waterways is the biggest contributor to the recent die-off.... Read More >>

Nearly three years have passed since superstorm Sandy battered Long Island. It changed us, for better and for worse. It made us more aware of our.... Read More >>

A promising path to finally financing an ocean outfall pipe for Nassau County's Bay Park sewage treatment plant is being cleared through the morass.... Read More >>

An algae bloom causing brown tide is again spreading across the Great South Bay, 30 years after the first was detected on Long Island. This is the.... Read More >>

Researchers at Dr. Chris Gobler’s microalgae laboratory at Stony Brook University have found “an intense and damaging brown tide” across much.... Read More >>

Single-use plastic and nonrecyclable paper shopping bags have been banned at retail stores and businesses in Patchogue Village.... Read More >>

Sen. Chuck Schumer has just come up with another way to fund the badly needed ocean outfall pipe at Nassau County’s Bay Park Sewage Treatment.... Read More >>

The extreme western portion of Long Island Sound is suffering from high nitrogen levels, low oxygen and cloudy water but the 1 million acre system.... Read More >>

Millions of additional federal dollars coming to the state could be used to partially fund a new outfall pipe at Nassau's Bay Park sewage-treatment plant.... Read More >>

The call came just after daybreak. A local radio station was asking about dead fish in the bay. John Torgan leaped out of bed, grabbed his cellphone.... Read More >>

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 >>

The photos were stunning. Dead bunker fish by the thousands in the Peconic Estuary, their carcasses massing in the waters and piling onto shores.... Read More >>

Suffolk County collected water samples Sunday in the Peconic Estuary where tens of thousands of dead fish still lined the shore after a massive dieoff.... Read More >>

A fish kill of major proportions is underway in the Peconic Estuary and as marine researchers are sampling the water for further study, town officials.... Read More >>

Tens of thousands of dead bunker fish washed up on the shores of Reeves Bay in Flanders within the last two weeks—the number of fish, and smell.... Read More >>

Hundreds of small turtles have washed up dead on the eastern end of Long Island in the last month, a dieoff scientists blame on waterborne toxins that.... Read More >>

Tens of thousands of dead fish emerged in the Peconic Estuary on Friday, prompting officials to organize cleanup efforts Saturday.... Read More >>

About 100 diamondback turtles from Flanders Bay have washed ashore since late April in a rare die-off and one expert said it could take a century for the numbers to recover..... Read More >>

The dieoff of turtles in Flanders Bay has prompted state officials to temporarily ban the harvesting of shellfish and flesheating gastropods in portions of..... Read More >>

Dozens of dead turtles have been washing up on beaches along Flanders Bay— with little explanation as to what is killing them..... Read More >>

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has again denied a request to fund a $550 million ocean outfall pipe for Nassau County's Bay Park.... Read More >>

Mankind has been fighting over water for thousands of years. Surprisingly, the latest skirmish over this prized and precious resource is between Long Island and.... Read More >>

Patchogue Village trustee Joseph Keyes is continuing his fight to ban plastic shopping bags and plans to sponsor an educational forum about the issue on.... Read More >>

The towns of Oyster Bay and Hempstead will require advance notice to property owners when monitoring wells or other excavations are dug as the Navy and.... Read More >>

A new plan has emerged for hooking up the Ronkonkoma Hub development to sewers, and it seems so sensible and forward looking, it's a wonder it.... Read More >>

New York is going fishing again. State officials are trawling Washington, D.C. And their target is a whopper: $550 million in federal funding for an ocean outfall.... Read More >>

Aquifers know no municipal boundaries, but politics sure does. That makes a bill introduce last week by state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola) a practical move.... Read More >>

A Long Island state senator has introduced a bill aimed at stopping New York City from reopening nearly two dozen shuttered Queens wells that pump water from.... Read More >>

The Bethpage Water District is allowed to amend a lawsuit filed against Northrop Grumman Corp. in 2013 over contaminated groundwater, a U.S. District Court.... Read More >>

The East End’s two county legislators rarely find themselves at odds over issues affecting the East End — especially environmental issues. But a.... Read More >>

A study commissioned by a Long Island environmental advocacy group said Brookhaven officials don't do enough to monitor possible groundwater and air.... Read More >>

BROOKHAVEN - A capped landfill in the Town of Brookhaven is causing potential air quality and water pollution problems, according to a new report.... Read More >>

Creeping slowly, a foot or two a day.... Read More >>

The last thing the good people of Levittown want is to spend years fretting about the quality of drinking water -- as neighboring Bethpage has done since the.... Read More >>

The Suffolk County Water Authority board last night unanimously approved what officials termed a "modest" 4.2 percent rate hike--$14.68 annually.... Read More >>

Leaders of Long Island's five eastern towns have asked Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to fund a $100 million incentive program to help homeowners pay.... Read More >>

Officials from the five East End towns have made an appeal to Governor Andrew Cuomo for $100 million in state surplus funds, with plans to direct the.... Read More >>

The state attorney general today plans to submit a bill to the State Legislature banning microbeads from personal-care products in New York, after an.... Read More >>

State officials Thursday pledged $150 million in storm recovery money for a nitrogen removal system at Nassau's Bay Park sewage treatment plant.... Read More >>

State officials Thursday pledged $150 million in storm recovery money for a nitrogen removal system at Nassau's Bay Park sewage treatment plant.... Read More >>

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced recently that the DEC collected over 52.... Read More >>

State officials announced Thursday morning they have secured $150 million for a nitrogen-removal system for Nassau's storm-damaged Bay Park sewage.... Read More >>

A nursing home is a far cry from the usual haunts for a state Environmental Conservation police officer. But a trio of the officers, decked out in green.... Read More >>

A $15 million plan to create a network of watchdog wells across geographic Long Island to track contaminants, check for saltwater intrusion and gauge how.... Read More >>

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for the Federal Aviation Administration to expedite their approval on the transfer of a roughly 25-acre tract of land at.... Read More >>

The prospects for federal or state money to build an ocean outfall pipe and a nitrogen-removal system for Nassau's storm-damaged Bay Park sewage.... Read More >>

Suffolk County will begin investigating whether contaminated fill dumped at four sites in the county has impacted the groundwater, after initial test results.... Read More >>

The state Department of Environmental Conservation yesterday approved the Town of Islip's plan to clean up an estimated 50,000 tons of illegally.... Read More >>

It’s a project that’s been talked about since the 1980s, planned for since 2004, and is anticipated to actually happen something in 2016. Soon, treated.... Read More >>

Long Island environmental activists are criticizing state regulators for their handling of a sand mining company's bid to expand above a sensitive aquifer.... Read More >>

Claims stemming from new, high levels of toxic contamination discovered deep under the ground near a former naval industrial site this year should be.... Read More >>

Riverhead's sewage treatment plant discharged another round of partially treated wastewater into the Peconic River last week, following three similar.... Read More >>

Suffolk County lawmakers and County Executive Steve Bellone yesterday drew names of 19 homeowners who will get free advanced wastewater treatment.... Read More >>

A Riverhead treatment plant discharged 2.5 million gallons of partially treated sewage into Peconic Bay over three days in November, according to Suffolk.... Read More >>

The Suffolk Legislature voted yesterday to have the county health department dig its own monitoring wells at contaminated sites in Islip Town, including.... Read More >>

It is not just the owls and crickets at night and the waves crashing off in the distance that make Alexander Peters so fond of his longtime second home.... Read More >>

Sand Land Corporation, owned and operated by Wainscott Sand & Gravel Inc., submitted an application to the DEC to expand its operations by some 20 percent.... Read More >>

A decades-long toxic clean-up in Bethpage around the former aerospace plant that helped land a man on the moon is getting renewed scrutiny after groundwater.... Read More >>

A decades-long toxic cleanup around the former aerospace plant that helped land a man on the moon is getting renewed scrutiny after groundwater tests showed.... Read More >>

King Kullen is taking local “shed-the-meds” efforts to a new level by setting up permanent collection boxes for unused medications in 11 of its grocery store.... Read More >>

Really big problems often lead to the old government three-step: Deny the problem exists, minimize its magnitude, reject responsibility to solve it.... Read More >>

Long Islanders can now dispose of unused medications at pharmacies in King Kullen stores as the grocery chain becomes the first to offer the service locally.... Read More >>

The state Appellate Division yesterday threw out more than $30 million in changes made to Suffolk's Drinking Water Protection Program in 2011 as "illegal.... Read More >>

The Lloyd aquifer holds a special mystique for Long Islanders. Always has. It's a superlative unto itself--our deepest and oldest aquifer, with our cleanest.... Read More >>

High levels of a potential carcinogen have been found in groundwater in Bethpage near a former naval industrial site, and local water.... Read More >>

Suffolk County will receive $13.6 million in financing from Albany to fund upgrades to the Bergen Point Sewage Treatment Plant in West Babylon.... Read More >>

The backer of a law credited with halting the spread of densely built suburbia into eastern Long Island now wants to use it to stop pollutants from flowing.... Read More >>

Proposition 5 Ends county's practice of diverting funds from the Drinking Water Protection Program to balance the budget.... Read More >>

The region's purest, most protected source of drinking water could become contaminated and infused with saltwater if New York City and a Nassau County.... Read More >>

Nassau County this week joined Suffolk in banning the use and sale of liquid waste from hydraulic fracturing within its borders, effectively creating an.... Read More >>

The first round of groundwater sampling at Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood--where an estimated 50,000 tons of debris laced with contaminants was.... Read More >>

The state will push ahead with 25 local projects aimed at making some Long Island communities better prepared for a major weather event two years after.... Read More >>

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, flanked by Long Island elected leaders in Oakdale yesterday, announced that Suffolk County will receive $383 million in state.... Read More >>

Suffolk County residents next Tuesday will vote on propositions that would eliminate the countywide elected office of treasurer and create a nearly $30 million.... Read More >>

A host of infrastructure projects--including raising electrical substations on Long Island and fortifying Fire Island dunes--that total $17 billion will make New.... Read More >>

It was alarming to read that because of high nitrogen and low oxygen, there are parts of Long Island Sound where even fish can't live. Decrepit septic.... Read More >>

more than two-thirds of Long Island's coastal waters did not contain enough oxygen this summer to enable fish to survive, according to research to be released.... Read More >>

It’s no Mega Millions, but 19 Suffolk County homeowners will soon hit the lottery in a county drawing to test new wastewater treatment systems. Suffolk County officials are... Read More >>

This local proposition resolves a long dispute between Suffolk County and environmentalists over county attempts to borrow money from a drinking water protection.... Read More >>

Homeowners who want to upgrade their wastewater treatment system can enter a lottery at Suffolk County's website. Suffolk will provide 19 advanced.... Read More >>

Owing to a recent elevation of the cyanobacteria first detected in July, the East Hampton Town Trustees have closed Georgica Pond for another 21 days.... Read More >>

A 120-acre Yaphank property that had been eyed for a housing development will be preserved as open space with hiking trails, Brookhaven officials.... Read More >>

Islip residents and local officials voiced concerns about the proposed plan to clean up the estimated 50,000 tons of toxin-laced debris from Roberto Clemente Park.... Read More >>

For the second straight summer, the Long Island Sound was far healthier than a decade ago, with fewer oxygen-deprived dead zones.... Read More >>

There is arguably nothing more important to Long Island's future than our water: drinking water, ponds, bays and shorefront. All are being damaged by pollution, yet.... Read More >>

Brookhaven Town has verbally agreed to pay $12 million for 120 acres of prized open space in the Carmans River watershed, settling a decadelong court dispute.... Read More >>

Before the leaders of the three municipalities on Northport Bay put pen to paper at a Huntington Town Hall ceremony to sign a historic intermunicipal agreement.... Read More >>

For the first time since 2007, Northport Harbor survived the spring and summer season without biotoxin closures due to red tide, according to Stony Brook.... Read More >>

Water quality management in Huntington, Northport and Asharoken just got easier. This week, village and town officials signed an agreement that will.... Read More >>

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to use $482 million of New York State clean water funds to dredge for the Tappen.... Read More >>

Every year, Long Island officials compile a list of properties that should be preserved and cite the essential role open space plays in keeping our underground aquifer clean.... Read More >>

The Town of Huntington has signed a five-year pact with Northport and Asharoken Villages to improve water quality. The agreement yesterday formalizes.... Read More >>

When testing water, trends are critical. They reveal increasing contamination and help pinpoint sources of pollution that must be cleaned up.... Read More >>

More than $1.6 billion in federal funds, already committed to Nassau County and the Long Island Power Authority for damage caused by superstorm Sandy, has been.... Read More >>

County legislators voted overwhelmingly last week to let Suffolk voters decide the fate of a plan that would eventually replenish the Drinking Water Protection Program.... Read More >>

A commission studying ways to protect Long Island's aquifer system heard from the public this week at the first of two scheduled hearings.... Read More >>

A winter bloom of phytoplankton is forming a thick carpet over an oxygen-starved dead zone in the northern Arabian Sea, a new study reports.... Read More >>

Researchers at Molloy College said they have seen a mass die-off of horseshoe crab eggs and larvae on Fire Island this summer, after they were smothered.... Read More >>

The catch of the day at Sands Point Preserve wasn't pretty yesterday, but afterward the beach looked better.... Read More >>

State and local government officials have confirmed the presence of a cyanobacteria bloom in Lake Capri in West Islip. Due to the finding of high levels of.... Read More >>

Potentially toxic blooms of blue-green algae have been found for the first time in Sagg Pond in Sagaponack and Old Town Pond in Southampton.... Read More >>

An advisory to beachgoers to refrain from wading or swimming in Lake Ronkonkoma at Brookhaven Park due to a localized blue-green algae bloom.... Read More >>

The Suffolk County Legislature has an independent streak that usually is refreshing. But some lawmakers now are being simply bullheaded regarding.... Read More >>

Suffolk County, once known as an aggressive pollution watchdog, has cut water testing in half and reduced inspections of businesses that store hazardous chemicals.... Read More >>

Over the last 30 years, I have reviewed hundreds of development applications as an environmental analyst with the Suffolk County health department.... Read More >>

Residents near Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood want the state Department of Environmental Conservation to include a community advisory board.... Read More >>

Educational signs about coastal issues and historic events have been installed throughout Hempstead Harbor as part of an effort to attract.... Read More >>

East Hampton officials say more frequent flushing with salt water could be key to combating the toxic algal blooms.... Read More >>

Suffolk County health officials have advised visitors to refrain from wading or swimming in Lake Ronkonkoma at Brookhaven Park.... Read More >>

A panel of experts will gather tonight at the Brentwood Public Library to discuss the health and environmental concerns concerning toxic debris.... Read More >>

The federal government should keep its pledge to pay for a new treatment plant in Seaford that purifies water impacted by.... Read More >>

Health officials are warning against swimming in Lake Ronkonkoma after a localized cyanobacteria bloom, commonly known as blue-green algae, was found.... Read More >>

East Quogue Elementary School sixth-graders will get to experience the creatures of the deep in a brand new way this year.... Read More >>

A study to determine the unused and potential capacity of the Huntington sewer district is expected to begin this fall.... Read More >>

Long Island's imperiled shellfish industry is getting a boost from a Mount Sinai hatchery that has added millions of young clams and oysters to local.... Read More >>

Long Island Sound, already choked with nitrogen, may also be becoming more acidic--a state that could threaten marine life.... Read More >>

Environmentalists and civic leaders are calling on the State Department of Environmental Conservation to deny an application to expand.... Read More >>

Environmentalists and local activists called on the state yesterday not to issue an operating permit to allow the expansion of a Bridgehampton.... Read More >>

Nassau County, state and federal officials say they're trying to find a new patchwork of financial sources to build an ocean outfall pipe at the county's.... Read More >>

If there is any doubt that better water quality will improve clamming and other shellfish opportunities in the Great South Bay, a visit to the Fire Island breach.... Read More >>

Dr. Christopher Gobler, of Stony Brook Southampton’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is a man who needs no introduction in Southampton Town.... Read More >>

Just when you thought that it was safe to go in the water, a danger is lurking off of Long Island's east end, and it's the worst.... Read More >>

"Rust tide" has returned to the East End for the 11th straight summer, with experts saying the fish killing algae blooms struck sooner and harder.... Read More >>

The scandal in Albany is not about what's illegal; it's about what's legal. Consider these two outrageous actions in the legislative session.... Read More >>

Elevated levels of a blue-green algae that produces toxins harmful to people and animals have been found in an East Hampton Pond.... Read More >>

Two Southampton Town bodies of water have high levels of toxins from blue-green algal blooms that can be dangerous to humans and animals.... Read More >>

A Nassau legislative committee gave final approval yesterday to a contract to pay New Jersey-based United Water at least $1.14 billion over 20 years.... Read More >>

Nassau County legislators are expected to approve a contract today to privatize the county's massive sewage treatment system.... Read More >>

An advisory against swimming has been issued for 66 Suffolk County beaches as a result of heavy rainfall, which could lead to elevated bacteria levels.... Read More >>

Town Engineer John Cronin won the day with enough Town Board members agreeing Tuesday to accept $4,000 from the Group for.... Read More >>

Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone certainly picked a pretty spot to bury the hatchet with environmental advocates.... Read More >>

Privatizing management of Nassau County's massive sewer system would save at least $158 million over 20 years--$73 million less than County.... Read More >>

The Nassau County Legislature voted yesterday to revive its 1970s-era Water Resources Board to monitor New York City's move to reopen dozens of wells.... Read More >>

Nassau County will conduct a $2 million study on sewering parts of Glen Cove near a beach that has been closed since 2009 because of elevated.... Read More >>

Picturesque areas of the Hamptons risk becoming filled with "dead water" if residents don't stop using harmful fertilizers to make their lawns.... Read More >>

Nassau will spend up to $12 million to install and monitor technology that can remove pollutants and debris from storm-water drainpipes before they reach.... Read More >>

Nassau officials have scheduled a public hearing Monday on the planned privatization of the county sewer system, but questions continue over the way.... Read More >>

A nearly $30 million fund for open space and clean water projects plus short term borrowing to balance the budget that is being proposed by Suffolk.... Read More >>

A dozen Long Island beaches remained closed to swimming on the Independence Day holiday because of concern about bacteria levels.... Read More >>

A harmful blue-green algal bloom has been found in a third pond in Southampton, the Suffolk County Department of Health said yesterday.... Read More >>

Swimming has been suspended at West Beach at Heckscher State Park in East Islip because of unacceptable water quality, the state Office of Parks.... Read More >>

Three shellfishing areas on Long Island's North Shore will be closed starting tomorrow to protect the public from potentially contaminated shellfish.... Read More >>

Long Island environmental and Brookhaven Town officials say they fear contaminated soil at a former Long Island Rail Road dump site in Yaphank could one day pollute.... Read More >>

Nassau Republicans are moving to resurrect the county's 1970's-era Water Resources Board in response to New York City's plan to reopen dozens of wells in Queens.... Read More >>

Nassau County will begin building a massive concrete wall and earthen berm next month around the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to protect the facility.... Read More >>

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has reached a deal for a private company to manage the county's massive sewer system, saying the plan will save.... Read More >>

State lawmakers have approved a bill that orders the Department of Environmental Conservation to outline a plan to contain a toxic waste site in Bethpage.... Read More >>

New York's two U.S. senators announced yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse Nassau County more than $4 million for.... Read More >>

Brown Tide--an overgrowth of algae that clouds the water and harms shellfish--is back in Long Island's waters for the eighth year in a row.... Read More >>

The last 12 months have been a good year for water. That sounds weird coming after the demise of the Long Island water-quality bill in the State Senate. Passage of.... Read More >>

Long Island did not see any shellfish bed closures due to red tide this spring for the first time in seven years--but the algae responsible have been found in a new location.... Read More >>

Toxic "red tide" algal blooms spread across some East End bays again this spring, as they have for the past several years, but chilly weather appears to have kept.... Read More >>

The end of the annual legislative session in Albany usually culminates in a flurry of last-minute deal-making. This time around, there doesn't seem to be... Read More >>

After months of wrangling, two Long Island lawmakers have submitted a bill to the State Legislature to improve water quality on Long Island.... Read More >>

A bill to protect Long Island watersheds from pollution is getting a renewed push from two state lawmakers in the final week of the legislative session.... Read More >>

Excessive nitrogen levels and climate change are keeping sea grass from rebounding in waters off Suffolk County, shrinking an important... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and environmentalists have reached an important deal regarding the spending of water-quality funds.... Read More >>

After an up-Island assemblyman recently pitched a clean water bill creating a timeline for improving wastewater treatment systems, matching legislation has... Read More >>

After 16 years of research and debate, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has released its strategy for safeguarding Long Island's water... Read More >>

New York State's environmental agency yesterday released a blueprint for protecting Long Island's drinking water from pesticides... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and environmentalists yesterday touted a deal that would resolve their differenes over the county's.... Read More >>

Suffolk County lawmakers and environmentalists have struck a deal that ends a three-year legal battle and restores $30 million taken.... Read More >>

Legislation seeking to save Long Island's threatened waters was introduced last week. The Long Island Water Quality Control Act was... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and environmentalists are expected today to announce a deal allowing the county to continue.... Read More >>

A team of six IBM employees began pro-bono consulting work yesterday to help Suffolk County address nitrogen in surface water and groundwater.... Read More >>

Policymakers and scientists went on a boat tour of the Forge River in Mastic yesterday morning, surveying the nitrogen-polluted waterway... Read More >>

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected the state's request for hundreds of millions of dollars to build a pipe to send wastewater... Read More >>

The Fire Island breaches created by Sandy were not to blame for flooding in surrounding coastal communities in the months after... Read More >>

New Yorkers may appreciate this summer's beach and boating season more than ever, given the long hard winter. However, local advocates... Read More >>

Three Nassau County beaches have reopened this weekend after they were closed because of a wastewater plant malfunction... Read More >>

Long Island and portions of the state outside New York City are set to receive $600 million in the third and final installment of federal recovery funds... Read More >>

A state legislator is making another attempt at a bill protecting Long Island watersheds from pollution, but this time without specific limits on nitrogen.... Read More >>

Long Island will get at least $400 million in federal storm recovery money for wastewater projects aimed at protecting the area from future storms.... Read More >>

Sen. Charles Schumer said he made a "strong pitch" yesterday to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, the department's... Read More >>

New York has asked the federal government for a disaster grant to build a pipe to send treated wastewater from the Sandy-damaged Bay Park Sewage... Read More >>

The Town of Babylon has finished all of Suffolk County's requirements for a new sewer line in Wyandanch and the system is ready... Read More >>

Excessive levels of nitrogen from wastewater, septic systems and other sources are increasingly harming Long Island salt marshes that provide protection from storm... Read More >>

New York State's $65 million improvement plan for Jones Beach, subject of a public forum last night in Nassau County, faced support from... Read More >>

Health and planning officials are pressing Suffolk lawmakers for $133,000 to combat a variety of harmful algae blooms... Read More >>

The push to address water quality on Long Island has received a major boost from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. He is forming a... Read More >>

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will announce a new task force today to tackle water quality issues on Long Island... Read More >>

More than $25 million in improvements at 11 Long Island state parks will be funded over the next year... Read More >>

The county must stay aggressive in its quest for Sandy aid funds to build sewers and improve septic systems... Read More >>

Long Island saw several boosts to environmental programs in the newly passed state budget this week, but several environmentalists said... Read More >>

As opponents of a Bridgehampton mining and solid waste processing facility have begun pushing for a town buyout of the property, the mine's owners have filed... Read More >>

Suffolk County farmers and their advocates yesterday spoke out against an island-wide pollution-control bill that they say will harm the agricultural industry... Read More >>

Suffolk County is seeking nearly $1 billion in superstorm Sandy recovery aid to extend sewers to 12,000 homes along the South Shore and repair... Read More >>

Concerns over whether Sandy-ravaged Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant will be fixed before the next major hurricane strikes were aired at a public hearing Thursday... Read More >>

Plans to dredge a Yaphank lake infested with invasive plants have been postponed for the second time due to more than $3 million in cost overruns, Brookhaven... Read More >>

Federal authorities are pushing for nitrogen removal to be a priority as Nassau County plans for an ocean outfall pipe that would transport treated effluent from... Read More >>

There is an ancient proverb that says: Beware of anyone who says they support clean water. OK, not really, but one could draw that lesson from recent events... Read More >>

Nassau residents told Cuomo representatives last night they're glad the governor wants to make long-overdue repairs to the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant... Read More >>

Suffolk is preparing a home-by-home analysis of areas to be connected to sewers as part of the county's push to address nitrogen pollution in local waterways... Read More >>

Proposed state legislation to create the Long Island Water Pollution Control Act came under heavy criticism yesterday from town and village officials... Read More >>

Brookhaven Town officials have called on the state to scrap plans to cap a contaminated Long Island Rail Road yard in Yaphank and instead remove soil from the property... Read More >>

Officials from Southampton Town, Suffolk County and Stony Brook University will make a personal pitch to Governor Andrew Cuomo for help in making the East... Read More >>

Rising from the devastation of superstorm Sandy is an unparalleled opportunity not only to repair the wrecked Bay Park sewage treatment plant, but also to finally... Read More >>

The Northport Harbor Water Quality Protection Committee is trying to keep its head above water, battling trying weather conditions as it tries to keep plans for... Read More >>

Last week, Joe Fischetti rightly identified nitrogen as a significant cause of declining regional water quality, but I disagree with his view that policy efforts should wait until... Read More >>

"Today's the day to save the bay!" "Nitrogen's the reason all the fish are leavin'!" "We have a pipe dream." These were the chants of environmental leaders and others at... Read More >>

Suffolk officials for the first time are looking to expand the reach of the mammoth Southwest Sewer District seven miles beyond its eastern edge to hook up the... Read More >>

A showdown over how pesticides are tracked is brewing between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office and environmental and health advocates, as well as lawmakers... Read More >>

Growing concerns over water quality on Long Island--from rising nitrogen levels to medications flushed down toilets and widespread use of some pesticides--were a common... Read More >>

Big-box retailer Costco has agreed to pay a $60,000 fine for selling an insecticide product banned on Long Island... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone yesterday announced a campaign to clean up nitrogen-polluted waters that could include building sewer systems... Read More >>

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced on Thursday that recent studies revealed potentially dangerous levels of pollution in Long Island’s ground and surface... Read More >>

The effect of superstorm Sandy still lingers across Long Island, and no greater impact to infrastructure can be identified than the damage to the Bay Park sewage... Read More >>

WASHINGTON -- FEMA has agreed to grant an additional $80 million to the already approved $730 million project to fix superstorm Sandy damage to the Bay Park... Read More >>

WASHINGTON -- The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill that Congress is set to vote on this week boosts money for the Long Island Sound restoration program... Read More >>

Local and federal officials are pushing for $600 million in Sandy aid to fund a pipe from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant that would transport treated sewage... Read More >>

Last year, a consortium of environmental groups here formed the Long Island Clean Water Partnership in response to a series of reports on the worsening quality... Read More >>

The federal government has approved at least $730 million in grants to help rebuild the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in Nassau County, the largest aid package... Read More >>

A combination of low oxygen and low pH found in some bodies of water--known as dead zones--together pose a greater threat to marine life...  Read More >>

Long Island’s two county executives said they have water on their mind as they enter 2014. The heads of Suffolk and Nassau counties spoke to a group of more... Read More >>

Long Island Clean Water Partnership-The organization is dedicated to clean water, and its mission is to improve the quality of drinking and surface water on LI... Read More >>

The letter "Brown tide not fault of our septics" [Oct.25] suggested that a lack of rainfall sonce late September and, in turn, a corresponding lesser... Read More >>

Toxic algae blooms or low oxygen levels affected every major bay and estuary across Long Island between May and September, triggering rust and brown tides... Read More >>

Water is our most important natural resource. We drink it, bathe in it, wash with it. And every drop we use on Long Island comes from aquifiers that lie far underground... Read More >>

A coalition of environmental groups yesterday outlined what they said local, county and state government officials must do to reverse the decline of Long Island's water... Read More >>

Twenty five million pounds of nitrogen from human waste made their way to the bays through Suffolk County's groundwater last year... Read More >>

Public health officials have identified a potential new threat to Long Island’s groundwater from an unlikely source: rotting grass cuttings, leaves and other natural debris...  Read More >>

Long Islanders use more water than people in much of the rest of the country, putting most of it toward maintaining their lush lawns. Residents of... Read More >>

Aging sewage treatment plants, antiquated septic systems, storm run- off and fertilizer use are loading Long Island’s waters with nitrogen, a pollutant that can threaten... Read More >>

Long Island’s sole source of drinking water lies beneath many of the most contaminated places in New York State... Read More >>