2020/2021 Annual Water Quality Report
Did you know...?
Did you know that Friends of the Bay has been monitoring water quality for more than 20 years?
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Once every two weeks from May through October, we collect data from various locations in Oyster Bay, Cold Spring Harbor and Mill Neck Creek including temperature, pH, salinity, water clarity and dissolved oxygen. We also take water samples that the Nassau County Department of Health (NCDOH) tests for enterococci bacteria and fecal coliform bacteria.
We initiated our water quality monitoring program to continue one established by the NCDOH that was terminated due to budget cuts. The program was developed in cooperation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, local governments and other volunteer monitoring groups around Long Island Sound.
Water quality monitoring is necessary to help preserve the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary and to increase public awareness of local threats to water quality.
Data collected each year is available for use by federal, state and local government agencies, as well as the general public. You can view our current data as well as download a copy of our water quality monitoring report for the 2020 and 2021 seasons by visiting our website at https://www.friendsofthebay.org/water-quality-data.html
We have also been participating in Save the Sound’s Unified Water Study since 2017. For more information on that program, visit https://soundhealthexplorer.org/about/unified-water-study/
For more fun facts, follow our "Did you know" series every week on Facebook and Instagram, and every other week in the Oyster Bay Herald.
Click here to read past "Did you know" articles.
Once every two weeks from May through October, we collect data from various locations in Oyster Bay, Cold Spring Harbor and Mill Neck Creek including temperature, pH, salinity, water clarity and dissolved oxygen. We also take water samples that the Nassau County Department of Health (NCDOH) tests for enterococci bacteria and fecal coliform bacteria.
We initiated our water quality monitoring program to continue one established by the NCDOH that was terminated due to budget cuts. The program was developed in cooperation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, local governments and other volunteer monitoring groups around Long Island Sound.
Water quality monitoring is necessary to help preserve the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary and to increase public awareness of local threats to water quality.
Data collected each year is available for use by federal, state and local government agencies, as well as the general public. You can view our current data as well as download a copy of our water quality monitoring report for the 2020 and 2021 seasons by visiting our website at https://www.friendsofthebay.org/water-quality-data.html
We have also been participating in Save the Sound’s Unified Water Study since 2017. For more information on that program, visit https://soundhealthexplorer.org/about/unified-water-study/
For more fun facts, follow our "Did you know" series every week on Facebook and Instagram, and every other week in the Oyster Bay Herald.
Click here to read past "Did you know" articles.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND SOUND
by Jennifer Wilson-Pines
-Originally published in The Island Now
Photo credit: Jennifer Wilson-Pines
