Many chemicals used in yard care are washed away by the next rain, including pesticides and fertilizers.
   The water then carries those chemicals both over and through the ground in the form of runoff and groundwater to gutters and storm drains, lakes and reservoirs, streams and rivers, harbors and bays, and to Long Island Sound.
   Obviously, this is not the intent of the gardener, but these actions negatively affect water quality and harm or kill both terrestrial and aquatic creatures.

    In general, common yard-care practices pose two threats to Long Island Sound:

    1) loss of life-sustaining oxygen, and
    2) harm and poisoning of marine organisms and their habitat.
    
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