Jun 22, 2011 9:57 AM
In the latest sign that local bays are far from healthy, the “brown tide” has once again billowed up in western Shinnecock Bay, overlapping with the diminution of a toxic red tide bloom.
As it has almost every year since the brown tide, a vast and dense bloom of brown algae, first tinted local waters coffee brown in 1985, the bloom has appeared and quickly thickened in Quantuck Bay, near Quogue, and spread through the Quantuck Canal west into Moniebogue and eastern Moriches bays, and through the Quogue Canal east into Tiana Bay and western Shinnecock Bay.
Signs of the bloom first started nearly a month ago, observers say, but reached the height of density only in the last week.
“It started getting bad about two weeks ago, but last week was when... more
As it has almost every year since the brown tide, a vast and dense bloom of brown algae, first tinted local waters coffee brown in 1985, the bloom has appeared and quickly thickened in Quantuck Bay, near Quogue, and spread through the Quantuck Canal west into Moniebogue and eastern Moriches bays, and through the Quogue Canal east into Tiana Bay and western Shinnecock Bay.
Signs of the bloom first started nearly a month ago, observers say, but reached the height of density only in the last week.
“It started getting bad about two weeks ago, but last week was when... more
