The Island's more westerly reaches are the subject of Josephine E. Irving's small oils of autumn foliage in Glen Cove and Oyster Bay in the 1890's and Julia Redding Kelly's lively little 1915 oil, "Boat Yard, Cold Spring Harbor".
The leading cause of water pollution at beaches is storm-drain runoff, which flows untreated to the coast and often is contaminated with motor oil, pesticides, yard waste, animal waste and other pollutants.
The leading cause of water pollution at beaches is storm-drain runoff, flowing untreated to the coast and often contaminated with motor oil, pesticides, yard waste, animal waste and other pollutants.
NEW ORLEANS — A group of 500 foreign welders and pipefitters brought in to work at Gulf Coast oil rig yards after Hurricane Katrina said Monday that they had sued their employer, claiming they were lured with false promises of permanent-resident status, forced to live in inhumane conditions and then threatened when they protested.
Surveys of iguanas before and after the spill determined that more than 60percentt of the marked animals on Santa Fe -- an island contaminated with about a quart of oil along each yard of its windward shore -- died by the end of 2001.
That was followed by an eclectic array of ventures: art galleries, clinics, cattle yards, oil and gas, defense and aerospace, and Girl Scout-cookie manufacturing.
The contamination, agency officials said, stems from the canal's history since its completion in the 1860s as a busy industrial waterway for the oil refineries, coal yards, concrete-mixing facilities and tanneries along its banks, and from being "a repository" of untreated industrial wastes and raw sewage and runoff.
But Brazillian football is not just played in stadiums and municipal pitches: as photographer Christopher Pillitz shows, Brazilians find space to play in scrap yards, oil rigs – and even on a flyover.
The properties account for nearly a third of the businesses in downtown, and include a dozen single- and two-family homes, the oil company, a lumber yard, a beer distributor, a boat yard, a gas station and a former German restaurant.
"The fact that the first turbine was assembled at what was an oil and gas fabrication yard illustrates the opportunities offered by renewables," he said.
