Freeport Friday Crew in the rain!
Heavy rain won’t stop the Friday Morning Freeport SPLASH Crew from getting the job done!
NEW Operation SPLASH Education Video
Check out the latest SPLASH Video!
Kayaker Saves Sea Turtle (Must See Video)
Check out this AMAZING video of a kayaker rescuing a sea turtle trapped in a fishing net!
A conduit to cleaner bays in Nassau County
County OKs study of underground pipe to transport treated sewage Posted November 30, 2016 If the pipe under study is usable, it will carrying treated waste from Bay Park to Cedar Creek’s outfall pipe near the Wantagh-Seaford border. “This is our only play. If the pipe doesn’t work, then we’re back to square one.” ROB…
NEWSDAY 8/28/16 GSB Cleanup
Great South Bay cleanup planned to get debris out of waterway August 28, 2016 By Nicholas Spangler nicholas.spangler@newsday.com An Amityville-based group will clean up some Great South Bay salt marsh islands near the Amityville Cut on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. Volunteers in 2012 pulled out tires, wood and trash. (Credit: Fran Berkman) An Amityville-based…
Making a ‘SPLASH’ against trash
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…
Nassau eyes aqueduct as solution to Bay Park outfall problem
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…
Join Up and Clean Up with Operation SPLASH
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…
Freeport marina stops using copper paint on boats, citing environmental harm
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…
NEWSDAY 8/3/14 Reynolds Cleanup
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…