At the SPLASH Members Meeting on Tuesday, November 1, President Rob Weltner reported that a study is underway to examine the feasibility of routing effluent from Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Outfall Pipe using existing piping that runs under Sunrise Highway. The Cedar Creek pipe empties 1.5 miles out into the…
On Sept. 29th, 25 students spent the day at SPLASH HQ. Amazing to see what they did with the trash that was collected by our dedicated volunteers this summer!
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…
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…
East Rockaway crew, Captain Peter Graffeo, Steve “Captain Video” Bohn and Leigh Block snag a giant truck tire from the marsh. Captain Video suggests we enlist the assistance of the Nassau County Marine Patrol to possibly hoist the tire and bring it in to their port. NCPD and SPLASH crew try to lasso the tire.…
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…
Here’s what a woman SPLASHER can haul!
2015.6 Wantagh Article with special thanks to Laura Schofar