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Freeport students create sculptures from trash

A broken hula hoop, plastic bottles and tin cans, fishing wire, a coconut, a plastic play set — these were some of the items used by Freeport High School students to create three dimensional … more

By Laura Schofer | 9/29/16

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

The Wantagh chapter of operation SPLASH cleaned up garbage near Jones Beach State Park.

Making a 'SPLASH' against trash

It was a cloudy day on June 27. At Wantagh State Park, the high tide and rough waves made it hard for smaller vessels to make it out into the Western Bays. Port Captain Gary Smith and six of his crew members, sporting rubber boots and cut-off shorts, worked hard to get their skiff away from the dock and into the bay off the Bellmore coastline. more

By Rebecca Anderson | 7/13/16

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

Wantagh’s chapter of Operation SPLASH is out on the waterways five or six days a week. From left are Gary Smith, Sue Wasserman, Barbara Thomson and Captain Tom Hogan.

Combating waterfront pollution in Wantagh

Gary Smith, of Wantagh, is a man on a mission. As co-chair of the Wantagh branch of Operation SPLASH, he works with his 50 or so active volunteers to clean debris and monitor waterfront pollution in the most easterly section of the Western Bays — Wantagh, Seaford, Bellmore and Merrick. more

By Laura Schofer | 6/18/15

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

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