{"id":354503,"date":"2026-09-23T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:52:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-long-island-sound-water-quality-earns-high-marks-but-many-bays-and-harbors-continue-to-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354503\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Long Island Sound Water Quality Earns High Marks But Many Bays And Harbors Continue To Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New data show water quality in most of Long Island Sound is trending in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Environmental group Save the Sound says 98% of the open waters received at least a B grade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">However, about half of the region&#8217;s bays and harbors earned a C grade or lower.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New Rochelle Harbor received a B-minus grade this year, matching its 2024 score.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Inner Norwalk Harbor remained at an F grade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Some of the main stressors on our bays and harbors in respect to environmental health are fertilizer usage, stormwater runoff, a big vector of pollution to our bays and harbors, also wastewater treatment plant infrastructure,&#8221; said Peter Linderoth of Save the Sound.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say harmful algae blooms, pollution and the effects of climate change also contribute to poor grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data show water quality in most of Long Island Sound is trending in the right direction. Environmental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-354503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}