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IN THE FIELD: Brown tide, South Shore scourge

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith Jennifer Smith

Smith is a Long Island reporter who primarily covers the

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The sun broke through the mist and turned an overcast

summer morning on Quantuck Bay into something out of a picture book: blue skies

over waterfront homes with private docks where herons perched.

But something wasn't right. Instead of being clear, the water sloshing

around the dock pilings was a murky olive, thanks to a type of algae known as

brown tide that had...

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