Come Join The Largest Long Island Clean-up: OpSPLASH22
In only a few hours, volunteers will rescue thousands of pounds of trash from our shores.
SPLASH boats will ferry you and your friends to one of the many islands in our South Shore estuary.
The goal is to remove as much man-made garbage as we can find. Last year we rescued more than
10,000 pounds from our shores...in just two hours!
Join us this year as we try to break the old record and make SPLASH history!
Spread the News...Save the Date...More details to come...Check back often!
We've Cleaned 1,000,000 Pounds of Trash!
Read about it in our latest newsletter.
• We're celebrating our 21st year.
• Details of our holiday party.
Right click here to download newsletter.
NEWS that really STINKS! Sewage Spills do happen (here on Long Island).
Even in Nassau County, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation.
Since 2001 there have been hundreds of violations at our area's sewage treatment plants that dump
into our bays and oceans...AND YOU WERE NEVER TOLD!
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Great Beach Clean Up
On July 22 at the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station, approximately 100 exchange students from Taiwan
came down to the beach to lend a hand cleaning the beach and learning about our environment.
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Baldwin group joins SPLASH to help clean Long Island shores
After spending a lot of time in the spring and summer on the beach, Jill Belovin got frustrated
at the amount of garbage she was seeing. When she discovered Operation SPLASH., Jill
decided to take action and got a group of friends together to set up the Baldwin branch.
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Lakeside's 'Go Green' group makes a 'SPLASH'
Capt. Don Harris of Operation SPLASH, met recently with students at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School
in Merrick.
The Lawn Chemical Ritual, and it's links to cancer.
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here for more informations.
Stop the Dumping in Reynolds Channel
From March through December 2010, the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant periodically released
sewage 40 times above the legal limit into Reynolds Channel, and no one notified the public about it.
Community groups and concerned citizens demanded that the County fix the problem and, as a result,
plant remediation has begun and the plant has been discharging in legal limits since January.
A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-killing Cooling Systems
While working as a contractor at a Long Island-based power plant, Rob Weltner witnessed
firsthand the devastating impact that the facility's outdated cooling water intake system
can have on aquatic life.
Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering And Save
Harbors), a volunteer non-profit organization started in 1990, provides a solution to the growing problem of
waterfront pollution through public awareness and individual
participation. The SPLASH boats are docked at the Town of Hempstead
's Guy Lombardo Marina in Freeport and at Nassau County's Wantagh
Park Marina and also at East Rockaway's Town Marina. Each boat has
it's own sailing schedules and to find a time that suits you please
check the "SAILING SCHEDULES AND CAPTAINS CONTACT INFO on this web
page. Each goes out at least once
daily and actually removes debris from the local waterways and
shorelines. SPLASH has hundreds of active members who are dedicated
to keeping our coastal waterways pollution free, allowing marine
life to thrive once again in the bays.
To learn more about Operation
SPLASH or to contact the organization,
call 516-378-4770. Or write to us at: Operation SPLASH PO Box 228 Freeport, New York 11520
