Partnering to restore Long Island’s water quality
The return of warm weather prompts many Long Islanders to anticipate summer days enjoying some of our nation’s most beautiful beaches, shorelines and waterways here on our Island.
But the mild air also heralds the re-appearance of distressing symptoms of our region’s water quality crisis: beach closures, fish kills, brown tides, toxic algal blooms, and others. Some of these events are annual reminders that almost all our water bodies are negatively impacted by pollution from bacteriological and nutrient sources, in particular, nitrogen.