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L.I. is making strides on the environmental front

April 22 is Earth Day, when we come together as a nation — and a planet — to celebrate the natural world and renew our vows to protect the environment from harm. In honor of Earth Day five years ago . . . more

4/22/21

Cleaner water in store for the South Shore

While Nassau County legislators may be divided on many issues, they recently made it clear that they agree on the importance of protecting Long Island’s wetlands. more

9/27/19

Rob Weltner, president of Operation SPLASH, showed on a map where the sewage would be rerouted to the ocean outfall pipe during a recent meeting with Baldwin civic associations.

Locals cautiously optimistic about sewage pipe plan

Members of the Freeport-based Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering and Save Harbors) were out and about on the South Shore this month to explain and promote a Nassau County proposal to send treated sewage from the Bay Park Water Reclamation Facility in East Rockaway to the Cedar Creek facility in Wantagh via a 110-year-old steel pipe. more

By Daine Taylor and Brian Stieglitz | 9/29/17

Pipe study to close parts of Sunrise Highway from Bellmore to Lynbrook

The county will continue its inspection of an aqueduct under the Sunrise highway on Sunday, to determine if the 110-year-old pipeline can be used to transport wastewater from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek outfall pipe. more

By Erik Hawkins | 4/12/17

It’s the season for all things outdoors

June is Great Outdoors Month. It’s a recognition and celebration of all the things we can do outside. And here on the South Shore, there’s no shortage of ways to spend a day out of doors, and have lots of fun doing it. more

6/16/16

Let’s hope county’s plan isn’t just a pipe dream

“The long-term sustainability of Reynolds Channel and our surrounding bays is a pressing environmental concern . . ." more

6/1/16

Nassau County has sent treated sewage into Reynolds Channel and the Western Bays since the late 1940s. A new county plan to divert the effluent to an ocean outfall pipe would end the practice, which would improve water quality in the bays, environmental experts say. Above, a view of the bays from the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick. Photo by Scott Brinton/Herald

County's pipe dream moving forward

Nassau County is looking to divert tens of millions of gallons of treated sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to the ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek plant on the … more

By Scott Brinton, Nick Ciccone, Andrew Hackmack and Laura Schofer | 5/20/16

So far, the sewage deal doesn’t stink

Anyone who has paid attention to Nassau County politics over the past few years knows that elected officials have tried just about everything to save money and raise revenue. From the closing of police precincts . . . more

4/13/16

State should extend Ocean Parkway bike trail

There’s long been a rivalry between motorists and cyclists on Long Island. Many, though certainly not all, drivers believe roads are meant exclusively for cars . . . more

9/25/14

Herald Editor Andrew Hackmack, left, intern Brian Stieglitz, center, and Senior Editor Scott Brinton recently cycled from Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa, to check out New York state’s new 3.6-mile, $3.8 million bicycle path on the Ocean Parkway.

Video: Biking the Ocean Parkway

I had been pedaling for an hour and a half when I stopped cold. The view, quite simply, stunned me. It was 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, and I was three-quarters of the way through a bike ride up and down the asphalt path that runs along the Wantagh and Ocean parkways, from Nassau County’s Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa. The entire ride, from Cedar Creek to Tobay Beach and back, was 17.6 miles. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/29/14

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