Suffolk County under the leadership of Cornell Cooperative Extension, has been providing information to residents regarding Stormwater Pollution and its effects on our environment. As rain or melting snow flows over roads, driveways and lawns, it can pick up pollutants like motor oil, fertilizers, litter and pet waste.
The Environmental Protection Agency considers stormwater pollution the nation's greatest threat to clean water. One effort to prevent runoff from roadways has been created at the end of Beaver Dam Road. Formerly, Beaver Dam Road extended to the edge of Carmans River. Waste oil drippings, trash, litter and pet waste were easily washed into the river when heavy rains ran directly off the road end into the river. Now there is a catch basin that can prevent most water from flowing directly into Carmans River as it filters through the sand and plantings that have been installed there. Studies have shown that waters of the Bay are severely impacted by stormwater.
In an effort to do our part we are asking our friends and neighbors who walk their pets on Post-Morrow property to bag their pet waste. We have set up buckets with a supply of bags so that you can pick up after your pets. These can be found at the entrances to several of our properties where many residents take their pets. We are requesting that everyone respect this request to pick up pet waste so that it will not wash into our waters or be a nuisance to others who walk these paths. Similar programs to pick up after pets exist in Bellport, as well as New York City. |
You may have seen one of these medallions on the sidewalks along South Country Road between Bellport and Brookhaven (County Road 36). There is one on the NW corner of Main Street and Station Road in Bellport Village and on storm drains at the intersection of Beaver Dam Road and South Country. They mark the storm drains and remind people not to drop anything in the drains so it won't pollute groundwater or enter the Bay.
For more information you may visit the web site established by Cornell Cooperative Extension and Suffolk County that provides information to all residents.
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/Programs/MARhome.htm |
