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Boaters take note: Stop speeding in the wetlands

It’s nearly summer, and the boating season is now upon us. That means speedboats and personal watercraft roaring along our coastline. more

6/17/21

We all have a role to play in keeping our water clean

Clean drinking water, a swim in the bay, catching fish to eat and going to the beach are things we easily take for granted as Long Islanders. more

9/22/16

It took a team effort to launch this boat, which was loaded down with lumber collected on the shore.

Volunteers take out trash in Island Park

The volunteer organization Operation SPLASH took to Masone Beach in Island Park on June 4, picking up trash, cleaning out old wood and debris found on the marsh across the bay, and making the area … more

6/8/16

Think global, and local, on Earth Day

On April 22, we will celebrate the 46th annual Earth Day, when, ideally, we should commit to improving the state of our great Mother Ship. Despite our best efforts to discover a second planet where we might lay down roots . . . more

4/21/16

Metropolitan-Splash-Patriot connection

After Hurricane Sandy the Village of Island Park hired Metropolitan Construction Group and its President, Kent Katter of Babylon, to act as building inspector and administrator for the Village — the same Kent Katter who is now part of Patriot Management Group — the company that won the bid to rebuild Village Hall. more

By Barbra Rubin-Perry | 3/18/15

Island Park Mayor Mike McGinty lent his support to calls for funding.

South Shore rallies to support ocean outfall pipe

They came from towns and villages all along the South Shore to a rally at the headquarters of Operation SPLASH in Freeport on Monday, calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fund an ocean outfall pipe from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. more

By Barbra Rubin-Perry | 1/21/15

Operation SPLASH volunteers, like Steve Bohn, clean local waterways year-round. In SPLASH’s final voyage of the the year last week, Bohn came across a director’s chair.

‘Continuous battle’ on the water

As we headed back to the Guy Lombardo Marina in Freeport, navigating through Freeport waterways two days before Thanksgiving, the pile of trash on our boat was both gratifying and alarming. more

By Brian Croce | 12/3/14

The Western Bays provide many recreational opportunities such as kayaking, but scientists say that fertilizer runoff and partially treated sewage effluent threaten the health of the bays. Above, a wetland canal at Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick.

The Western Bays, an ecosystem suffering from all sides

Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm. more

By Stapha Charleme | 6/20/14

Richard Baldwin of the Interboro Team and Apex Companies, left, and Don Harris, Freeport SPLASH’s education director, spoke about wetlands degradation to participants in Saturday’s event during a boat tour of the canals south of Freeport.

Rebuilding the South Shore ‘by design’

Three members of the Interboro Rebuild by Design team showcased plans to restore and reinforce Nassau County’s southern shorelines at an event sponsored last Saturday by Freeport SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering and Save Harbors). more

By Vanessa Parker | 4/1/14

Tales of an eager garbage picker (condoms excepted)

I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/4/13

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