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Took a ride and anchored in Zachs for lunch.

Had a very nice few hours but two things.

First what a zoo. People anchoring too close and it looked like the LIE coming in when we were on our way out around 2pm.

Second I know it is hot and people are in the water and wading into the beach but what the heck is in that muck on the bottom. I don't want to put my feet into what came up on my anchor. Yuck. It doesnt wash off easily and it smells.
 
You're right. You don't want to put your feet into it. It's "South Shore Mud", lol. It has one advantage over sand. When you run aground and your prop goes through the mud, it does not damage it. The reason it smells and is sticky is because it's made up of rotting vegetable matter.
 
As a boater from Freeport, many boaters told me to go there. Went there twice in 10 years, first when I was a new boater...zoo, just nuts. Second time, maybe '07, both my wife and I got irritated and itchy from the water. Never again. Coast Guard Cove (garbage cove) or Hemlock Cove.

You're not crazy, move on.
 
Zack's is better during the week. The weekend gets too crazy. The later it gets, the worse it gets because of the crowds and the increased possibility of alcohol being involved.
Watch out for what may be on the bottom. Last year I pulled up my anchor, and the line of another was attached to it. I pulled that line, and up came a second anchor. Looks like someone cut their losses and left, or got their anchor line cut for them.
Two or three years ago I went on a mission of mercy to help pull a boat out of there that had picked up an anchor line around the prop on the way out.
The water itself is much better to swim in than it was years ago in there, but the bottom is still very mucky. Hemlock Cove is much better for swimming.
 
I guess I have to bring up the Sewage outlet pipe . It was supposed to be extended to the ocean but im not sure if it was... This was discussed before. The plant dumps sewage between the Zachs entrance and the drawbridge .

They got away with it for so many years as since the park is only used 3 months out of the year its permissible ...U can google it

Sorry

Rob
 
That was the Jones beach treatment plant dumping into the western bays near Zachs. Back in 2012 that stopped the pipe was connected to cedar creek now its treated there and goes into the ocean. Guess that's a little better yes ?
 
Looks like the Jones Beach Sewage is only the tip of the crapberg............
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/...ew-pipe-reroutes-jones-beach-sewage-1.3903638

"The toilets used by generations of Jones Beach bathers flushed to a treatment plant behind the theater and then, to environmentalists’ dismay, into the Western Bays.
No longer.

A buried 2-mile, $2.2 million pipe connecting the Jones Beach sewage treatment outfall pipe to the nearby Cedar Creek plant means that sewage will now discharge three miles out to sea, Nassau County and New York State officials announced Monday.

“The health of our bays and estuaries must be protected and this project goes a long way in achieving that goal,” Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said in a statement.

Treated sewage released into the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean disperses faster than discharge into the shallow Western Bays, which extend from the western boundary of the Town of Hempstead to the Nassau-Suffolk line and sustain many species of marine and bird life.

Conservation groups cheered the new connection in releases of their own, saying it was a step toward cleaner water. “The cumulative impact of all this dumping into bays is sediment buildup on the bottom, result[ing] in fewer fish and shellfish and poor water quality,” Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said in an interview.

But she cautioned that the Jones Beach plant, which discharges 30 million gallons annually, was only one of four treatment plants and a power plant discharging into the Western Bays, and responsible for the least discharge.

The others include the Bay Park Wastewater Treatment Plant, which handles an average of 50 million gallons of sewage per day.

In 2010, the plant spilled treated solids into Reynolds Channel.

Nassau County is studying new ways to discharge treated sewage from the plant, including on-site upgrades as well as a new outfall pipe that would extend into the Atlantic Ocean"
 
Good to hear ... Thanx guys ...

Now we need the boaters to stop dumping ...

Rob
 
I agree that the boaters shouldn't dump, but I'm not sure how much difference it makes when they have just one sewage treatment plant dumping 50 million gallons a day in to the western bay. The article only talks about Nassau County. I wonder how much Suffolk is dumping in to the other end of the bay.
 
Might be...
Even if his bones aren't there, it would probably pay to drag the bottom in there. No telling what you might find.
 
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