Buoy 4 teamed up with East Rockaway Kiwanis and Operation Splash to participate in “Operation Cleanup” on Aug. 28 along the waters off of Bay Park.
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By Jake Pellegrino
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8/31/22
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It’s nearly summer, and the boating season is now upon us. That means speedboats and personal watercraft roaring along our coastline.
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6/17/21
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Engineers have determined that the 110-year-old aqueduct running underneath Sunrise Highway is in “very good condition,” and county officials are preparing for the next stages of a proposed project to refurbish and upgrade the pipe to transport treated sewage from Bay Park to Cedar Creek.
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By Mike Smollins and Julie Mansmann
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6/15/17
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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.
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9/22/16
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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 . . .
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4/21/16
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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.
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By Brian Croce
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12/3/14
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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.
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By Stapha Charleme
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6/20/14
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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).
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By Vanessa Parker
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4/1/14
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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.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/4/13
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Operation SPLASH (stop pollution, littering and save harbors), a group synonymous with the cleanup of Long Island’s bays and waterways, has been stifled by hurricane Sandy. It’s not that …
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By Chris Connolly
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11/20/12
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