SSE/303(d)

This summer an EPA colleague and I undertook a fact-finding roadshow, traveling to government, nonprofit, and academic organizations on Long Island to understand and document the causes of declines in specific shellfish fisheries and general ecological condition within the South Shore Estuary. As a result, a number of the organizations we met with submitted data and information to the New York State Department of Environmental Protection for consideration in the development of the 2010 CWA 303(d) list of impaired waterbodies. Yesterday, the DEC announced that it would include the Estuary on its list, paving the way to federal money to deal with the problems. Very cool.