Going Down The Drain – we need your help

The Town is now addressing some “impaired water bodies”, specifically Richmond and Goose Creek and some Mattituck Creek road ends potentially using porous pavement at specific road ends. There are many road end issues which also need to be resolved. John Betsch reviews our past efforts to help mitigate storm water runoff and asks for help. Click the link to read the full article.

Alkylphenols, Mosquitoes & Lobsters – Understanding the Theories

In 2010, fifteen scientists attended a conference at the University of Rhode Island, and presented their findings following a three-year, $3 million URI Sea Grant to study lobster shell disease. Hans Laufer, a University of Connecticut research professor of molecular and cellular biology, maintains that Alkylphenols interfere with the lobsters’ shell development and they are being found in lobster body tissues in Long Island Sound. This week, Long Island Sound lobstermen in Connecticut pointed the finger at New York for a late-summer lobster die-off in the western section of the Sound following the rains of Tropical Storm Irene. They want New York to change the chemical it uses to control mosquitoes.

Hot Topics 2011 – Southold VOICE Meeting

Raw video (unedited) in five parts of County Legislator Ed Romaine’s speech at the Southold VOICE Annual Meeting July 30th 2011, which took place at the Town Recreation Center in Peconic, NY.

Unload by Code – Pump Out Boat Program

Southold Town Trustees announce the Pump Out Boat Program. This is now available on weekends and holidays through Columbus Day weekend, from approximately 11AM until 6PM and it’s FREE. Click the link to read the full text of their announcement.

Shellfishing, Coliform and Water Testing Explained

There is a good deal of member interest in the closing of creeks to shellfishing. John Kramer reports on last week’s presentation by Trustee John Bredemyer to the Conservation Advisory Council. Clickthe link for the full report.

CAC Presentation by John Bredemeyer

Event: For everyone interested in helping remediate impaired Town Shellfish Lands, John Bredemeyer will be making a brief presentation at 4:30 PM on Wednesday May 11, 2011 at Down’s Creek Preserve, Cutchogue to the Conservation Advisory Council. Public welcome! Topics include Coliform Bacteria, Involved Agencies & New water testing methods.

West Creek pollution, the Real Culprits

John Kramer responds to this week’s letter in The Suffolk Times by Valerie Leonik. There’s more to the story, and it all depends on where you’re standing how you view the health of our waters. Read his opinion and hear the geese for yourself.

Keep our Fish from Getting Hooked!

It’s a start! Thank you to our independent East End pharmacies, who are now offering a program to help us keep toxins from unwanted medications out of our waterways. Bring your drugs on Wednesday this week, November 17th 2010, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., to Southold Pharmacy, Shelter Island Heights Pharmacy and Barth’s Pharmacy in Mattituck and Riverhead. They will be collected and turned over for proper incineration and it does not matter whether the drugs were purchased at one of the participating stores.

How to reduce your medication plume in one easy step

There is increasing concern about what the effects of these drugs are once they find their way into our ground water, rivers, lakes estuaries or oceans and ultimately back into us. Dennis Lane makes the case to stop disposing of all medications, both prescribed and over the counter, in a thoughtless fashion and start insisting that pharmaceutical companies and/or our waste transfer station in Southold help us keep these drugs out of our extensive North Fork waterways, the ground water that we drink and our creeks and bays, which support our wildlife.

PEP Talk nets $10,000 for East Marion project

Thirteen months ago, April 2009, we first reported on the Peconic Estuary Program initiative for Hashamomuck Pond. A Fall update followed, and now PEP has awarded the Gardiners Bay Estates Homeowners Association a $10,000 grant to restore Spring Pond. The objective is to stop the first 45 minutes of storm runoff, which contains most of the bacteria we need to keep out of the water. Maybe you didn’t notice that there’s a video about it at Suffolk Times. If so, here it is:

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