While Long Island Sound's water is getting cleaner, the Sound still suffers from hypoxic “dead zones,” beach closures, and other effects of contamination that keeps the Sound from meeting water quality standards.
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The water that flows from every single spigot in Nassau and Suffolk County comes from groundwater aquifers and nowhere else. These aquifers are ours to protect. Nothing is more important than clean water to drink.
It has no inlet or outlet stream and receives almost no stormwater runoff. As a result, Laurel Lake has some of the clearest pond water on Long Island! The clear waters of Laurel Lake produce some of the nicest holdover trout on Long Island.