REPORT FROM AUBREY RUSSO, PRESIDENT, SEQ
For the last couple of weeks, Students for
Environmental Quality have been collaborating
with Chris Colahan, Director of Peconic Dunes, and
Richard Lee, environmental educator, who both work
for Cornell Cooperative Extension, on the Watershed
Action Plan. Thanks to Clare O’Reilly, of the SSERC,
who has updated us on new projects that we could
participate in like this one, both Rich and Chris
have been taking the time out of their schedules
to educate S.E.Q. about GPS usage and how it will
help us in locating local Stormwater drainage sites
around the Beaver Dam Creek Watershed Area.
Our group consists of about ten members who come
to the training sessions we’ve been having every
Wednesday for the last couple of weeks. This
training has been very helpful so far in locating
all the possible Stormwater drains in our area that
impact the Beaver Dam Creek Watershed Area.
So far, we have used our GPS training to locate
30 drainage points on the Bellport High School
property. In addition, we have visually located
several nearby drainage points on public roads
which we will soon identify with exact GPS
latitude and longitude locations.
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Once the pilot project at the High School is complete, the
mapping of stormwater infrastructure will be expanded to
the overall Beaver Dam Creek Watershed, where the
students will field check existing infrastructure mapping and
identify any unmapped stormwater management structures.
The contribution of the SEQ is very much appreciated.
(Post-Morrow Foundation)
Dan O’Connor, faculty advisor to SEQ, Aubrey Russo, President and Gabrielle Christensen mapping a storm drain as part of the watershed planning process. (Photo courtesy of SEQ)
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The Foundation would like to thank the family of Joop and Doris van der Grinten for their very generous
donation to the Foundation in memory of their parents. As they said in their letter to the Foundation;
Joop van der Grinten
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“Doris and Joop van der Grinten lived in
Brookhaven for nearly fifty years operating a
nursery business. For those fifty years, they worked
the earth and they devoted their lives to the
preservation of the environment. Doris and Joop
appreciated the natural scenic environment and
enjoyed living in the wonderful community of the
hamlet of Brookhaven. The good work of
Post-Morrow Foundation in preserving open
space and agricultural lands in the hamlet is a
cause that would be close to their hearts.”
- Martin van der Grinten, Ruth van der Grinten,
and Peter van der Grinten
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