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October 2011 Issue
The No Discharge Zone Illusion
Long Island Sound, the belt of water stretching 110 miles from Hell Gate in New York City to the Race at the Sound’s eastern end, is a fitting emblem of the water-quality woes future generations will face. Today, as Tom Andersen, author of “This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound,” describes, the Sound is at the brink of an “ecological crisis,” a term so frequently applied today that we’ve become numb to it.
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