Non-profit group combats pollution in the Western Bays Posted July 13, 2016 The Wantagh chapter of operation SPLASH cleaned up garbage near Jones Beach State Park. REBECCA ANDERSON/HERALD Volunteers for Operation SPLASH come from all over to help clean up the bays. REBECCA ANDERSON/HERALD By Rebecca Anderson It was a cloudy day on June 27. At Wantagh…
May 20, 2016 By Jennifer Barrios jennifer.barrios@newsday.com Outfall tide pumps at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. Officials may want to send effluent from the facility to the Cedar Creek plant. (Credit: Charles Eckert) Effluent from Nassau’s Sandy-damaged Bay Park sewage-treatment plant could be diverted to an ocean-outfall pipe at the county’s Cedar Creek…
November 17, 2015 by Rob Weltner An old sea captain named Al Grover and his daughter Joanne, fresh out of college, wanted to improve the world. That grand vision became one of the largest volunteer organizations in the United States as the Grovers and a few other volunteers in an ole’ leaky Garvey began Operation…
8July 8, 2015 By MELANIE DOSTIS. Special to Newsday Dante Grover stands in the boatyard of Al Grovers High and Dry Marina in Freeport on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Al Grovers High and Dry Marina stopped using copper-laced paint on the bottom of its boats because it is toxic to the marine life. (Credit: Newsday…
Reynolds Channel trash cleanup benefits environment, teaches children August 3, 2014 By PRISCILA KORB priscila.korb@newsday.com Alex Flyer, 11, left; Marc Paillex, 12; Brian Lippin, 13; and Josh Friedland, 14; all of Port Washington, pick up trash at a beach off Reynolds Channel in Long Beach on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (Credit: Newsday / Daniel…
October 4, 2013 By JOIE TYRRELL joie.tyrrell@newsday.com Long Beach High School students Chandler McMillan, left, Jamie Morgenstern and Arielle McManus pick up debris in advance of the main cleanup day at a 35-acre salt marsh adjacent to the Long Beach school district’s Nike Alternative High School in Lido Beach. (Oct. 3, 2013) (Credit: Howard…
April 29, 2013 By Sid Cassese 2013 The dechlorination facility at Nassau County’s Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant has earned the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Diamond Award for design and operation. The $5 million facility was completed about 18 months ago. The project that reused existing plant facilities was the first such installation in…
August 14, 2012 By Nicholas Spangler A view of Jones Beach, which has received sand nourishment treatments to maintain the beach, looking eastward on Fire Island. (Aug. 8, 2012) (Credit: Leah Buletti) The toilets used by generations of Jones Beach bathers flushed to a treatment plant behind the theater and then, to environmentalists’ dismay, into…
July 2, 2011 By Jennifer Smith Zach’s Bay, at Jones Beach State Park, received a low rating on water quality. (July 29, 2009) (Credit: Joel Cairo, 2009) Beach season is upon Long Island, but delays continue to dog a $1.94-million plan to reroute sewage from Jones Beach State Park away from the bays behind the…
June 1, 2011 by Rob Weltner · Leave a Comment The Operation SPLASH season started in March. Before starting a new year collecting tons of trash from the south shore, we repaired all the wounds suffered the previous year by our six boats. Over the years, our winter work crews have become real “plastic surgeons,”…