The Western Narrows, the portion of the Long Island Sound closest to New York City, have received a failing grade in a new water quality report. But environmental researchers say some optimism is also embedded in that “F.”
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022., the environmentalist group Save the Sound found too much nitrogen and not enough oxygen in the waters of the Western Narrows. In conditions like this, water takes on a putrid look, and waves of dead fish float ashore. It’s not safe for swimming, and local seafood economies suffer.
This edition upped the Western Narrows' score from 0% to 51%. Save the Sound granted As to the eastern portions of the Long Island Sound, and the grades decreased steadily as one moved westward toward New York City. Linderoth said he became interested in looking at water pollution after growing up amid a period of stagnated life on the western Long Island Sound in the 1980s. He recalled seeing dead fish blanketing the water’s surface, and lobsters crawling ashore to escape the dirty water.
Over time, federal and state environmental policy helped reduce the amount of nitrogen released in the water, as did upgrades to sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants — major contributors of this pollutant. New York and Connecticutwhich aimed to cut nitrogen levels by more than half of where they were a decade earlier.
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