Happy Earth Day! 🌎 The air, water, and ecosystems that sustain us connect every community. None of us are on the sidelines—our actions matter.
Take action today: We’re close to our goal of 500 new memberships, each matched dollar for dollar. Join for $25 & double your impact: savethesound.org/match
"It is energizing to be in a room filled with such passionate individuals who are all working toward a common goal of understanding and improving water quality in Long Island Sound," said Emily Bulmer, our environmental analyst.
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Tier I training for the Unified Water Study is in the books!
Over the last two weeks, partner groups from around the Sound have spent a day at our Larchmont office, picking up monitoring equipment and running through protocols in preparation for the 10th UWS season, which begins on May 1st.
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📢JUST RELEASED: Each year, @americanrivers.bsky.social releases America’s #MostEndangeredRivers to spotlight rivers at risk. Check out the 2026 list and take action to support the future of the Nissequogue River: AmericanRivers.org/NissequogueRiver2026
Soccer, sustainability, and Save the Sound.
Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. for @westchestersc's inaugural Sustainability Night at Mount Vernon Memorial Field.
Tickets: tinyurl.com/fnws3ww2
Stop by our table in the concourse and say hello!
Bill Lucey & Allison Rugila, our Soundkeeper team, took part in a panel discussion last week featuring Long Island’s Waterkeepers.
Allison: “Regardless of where you are in this region, the threats to clean water are apparent and ubiquitous: pollution, inadequate infrastructure, and climate change.”
A more sustainable Westchester Co., supporting Save the Sound, and soccer. What better way to spend a Wednesday?
Join us at Westchester SC's Sustainability Night: April 8, 7:00 p.m., @ Mount Vernon Memorial Field. $10 from all tickets purchased here will support Save the Sound: tinyurl.com/48mfd6uv
Join representatives from the Queens Borough president's office and our Waterfront Alliance and SWIM Coalition partners for a discussion about flooding in northeast Queens and how the Rain Ready New York Act would help communities improve their stormwater management. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Kick off #earthmonth with Save the Sound and Westchester SC on Sustainability Night 2026:
Westchester SC vs Sarasota Paradise
Wednesday, April 8, 7:00 p.m.
Mount Vernon Memorial Field
Tickets: tinyurl.com/48mfd6uv
On Friday, Revolution Wind started sending power to Connecticut and Rhode Island! Built by more than 1,000 local union workers, the project is expected to power 350,000+ homes with affordable, reliable clean electricity. #yestowind
Thank your representatives for prioritizing clean water investments in their one-house budgets released last week. Urge them to fight for $700m for the Clean Water Infrastructure Act & $500m for the Environmental Protection Fund in NY's final budget for FY2027.
savethesound.quorum.us/campaign/158...
We need your help to win critical fights happening now in CT and NY. Action at the local level has never been more important as federal agencies continue to try to roll back rules that protect clean water, air quality, endangered species, public lands, and more. Help today: savethesound.org/now
We cannot afford any attempts to weaken the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Make sure your representatives in the New York State Senate and Assembly know that you expect them to protect and implement our landmark Climate Law.
savethesound.quorum.us/campaign/157...
Elected officials reconvened on Jan. 7 in NY and on Feb. 4 in CT – and in D.C. attempts to weaken federal environmental protections continue daily. Decisions being made this winter will have a lasting impact on the Sound. So much is at stake. We need your help today: savethesound.org/now
Save the Sound staff will be co-facilitating panels at the 2026 Bronx River Assembly this Thursday at 4:10 p.m.
David Abreu, clean water advocacy specialist: "Access, Pathways, and Public Engagement"
Allison Rugila, associate Soundkeeper: "Biodiversity & Habitat Connectivity"
bit.ly/assembly2026
Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation last week about the ways DNA analysis can help communities understand the source of bacteria pollution at their local beaches.
Check out the insights shared by stakeholders from the Short Beach community in Branford: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3a1...
Are you a data collector in the LIS watershed looking for a home for your data? Let us know: support@QuickDrops.org. 2/2
Happy Birthday, QuickDrops.org! Look how you've grown!
One year after its launch, more than 100,000 data points from 700 locations around Long Island Sound have been uploaded to QuickDrops--a water quality data platform and visualization tool free to use for the full community of stakeholders. 1/2
Julianna and Alex braved the snow yesterday to attend the 2026 Yale Forum on Climate Change and Health at Yale School of Public Health
Join us for a webinar Thursday, Feb. 26 at 12:00 p.m. to learn how science and a behavior-change campaign helped improve water quality at one CT beach, and hear how eDNA testing could benefit beaches around the Sound.
Register: www.savethesound.org/dna-webinar
TONIGHT: Manhasset Bay Protection Committee invites community members to attend a virtual meeting to discuss the Manhasset Bay Water Quality Improvement Plan. A list of water quality-related recommendations will be presented for public review and comment.
us06web.zoom.us/j/7554073451...
Most of us around the Sound woke up Monday to a foot or more of fresh snow.
Shoveling may have been the near-term concern. But the eventual melt from big snowstorms can also pose the same threat to water quality as stormwater runoff from rain events.
www.stamfordadvocate.com/connecticut/...
Whether it’s our Soundkeeper team getting out on Long Island Sound for multiple lobster trap retrieval trips or hardy members of our water quality team having to break through ice to access water for sampling on the Bronx River, it’s sure been a cold few weeks out there for field work!
WATER QUALITY EVENT REMINDER
Join Save the Sound, other community members interested in improving water quality in Alley Creek & Little Neck Bay to hear NYC DEP discuss potential revisions to the waterbodies' CSO Long-Term Control Plan: THU, FEB. 5, 6:00-7:00 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center
Suffolk County executive Romaine, legislator Englebright, and Assemblymembers Schiavoni and Giglio led conversations that included NYS investment in clean water infrastructure, concerns over proposed changes to environmental regulations, and other pressing issues.
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David Ansel, Vice President of our Center for Water Protection, attended the annual Environmental Roundtable in Riverhead hosted by NYS Sen. Palumbo.
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Happy Groundhog Day! 🐾 Today your gift goes twice as far thanks to our Groundhog Day Membership Match. That means your $25 donation becomes $50 to protect the land our furry friends call home.
Help us reach 25 new members today! DOUBLE your impact: savethesound.org/match
Later tonight, you can watch David Ansel, VP of our Center for Water Protection, deliver testimony to a Joint Budget Hearing of the Environmental Conservation committees of the NYS Senate and Assembly: tinyurl.com/2wsav575
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