Liquid Lunch with Kevin Watsey, The Regional Water Authority
Save The Sound
Aug 19, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
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Liquid Lunch with Kevin Watsey, The Regional Water Authority
Aug 19, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
But before we get into your specific role, for the folks who are listening who may not know what Save the Sound is or may have heard it, you know, as a, you know, while they're cooking dinner, they may have heard on the news.
yeah happy to so save the sound is an organization environmental organization we're about a little over 50 years old um we have an office in new haven and an office in larchmont new york because we are working in the long island sound watershed so that includes the north shore of long island parts of westchester county queens and then uh almost all of connecticut about I'm going to throw out the term, the number 98%, about 98% maybe of people in Connecticut live in the Long Island Sound watershed, except for a teeny little piece in the west part of the state and a teeny little piece on the east part of the state.
And on the watershed, there's a little chunk of it in Rhode Island and an even smaller piece in upstate New York.
And then it goes up through Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, all the way across the border into southern Quebec.
so um because of the connecticut river valley right so um so we do our work uh primarily right now in new york and connect the new york and connecticut parts of the watershed um and uh we um were originally founded uh three separate organizations that came together so There was a group called Connecticut Fund for the Environment, which was a group of attorneys.
And there was another organization, smaller organization than we are today, called Save the Sound.
So in, I believe it was 2004, those two organizations merged and eventually decided that the name Save the Sound best encompassed the work we were doing.
And then I think it was 2017 when we also brought in Soundkeeper, which is an organization that belongs to the larger umbrella of the Waterkeeper organization.
So our Soundkeeper, we literally have a guy whose job title is Soundkeeper, Bill Lucy.
He gets on the boat and goes out, and he and our associate Soundkeeper kind of patrol the waters of Long Island Sound for pollution issues and other concerns.
So I wonder if you need to be named Bill to be a keeper, because I used to work in New York and worked with the Hackensack Riverkeeper, and that was Captain Bill.
so many things there are only about fifty of us and when you look on our website which is save the sound dot org and see all of the work we're doing it's kind of mind blowing even to me uh...
But before we get into your specific role, for the folks who are listening who may not know what Save the Sound is or may have heard it, you know, as a, you know, while they're cooking dinner, they may have heard on the news.
yeah happy to so save the sound is an organization environmental organization we're about a little over 50 years old um we have an office in new haven and an office in larchmont new york because we are working in the long island sound watershed so that includes the north shore of long island parts of westchester county queens and then uh almost all of connecticut about I'm going to throw out the term, the number 98%, about 98% maybe of people in Connecticut live in the Long Island Sound watershed, except for a teeny little piece in the west part of the state and a teeny little piece on the east part of the state.
And on the watershed, there's a little chunk of it in Rhode Island and an even smaller piece in upstate New York.
And then it goes up through Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, all the way across the border into southern Quebec.
so um because of the connecticut river valley right so um so we do our work uh primarily right now in new york and connect the new york and connecticut parts of the watershed um and uh we um were originally founded uh three separate organizations that came together so There was a group called Connecticut Fund for the Environment, which was a group of attorneys.
And there was another organization, smaller organization than we are today, called Save the Sound.
So in, I believe it was 2004, those two organizations merged and eventually decided that the name Save the Sound best encompassed the work we were doing.
And then I think it was 2017 when we also brought in Soundkeeper, which is an organization that belongs to the larger umbrella of the Waterkeeper organization.
So our Soundkeeper, we literally have a guy whose job title is Soundkeeper, Bill Lucy.
He gets on the boat and goes out, and he and our associate Soundkeeper kind of patrol the waters of Long Island Sound for pollution issues and other concerns.
So I wonder if you need to be named Bill to be a keeper, because I used to work in New York and worked with the Hackensack Riverkeeper, and that was Captain Bill.
so many things there are only about fifty of us and when you look on our website which is save the sound dot org and see all of the work we're doing it's kind of mind blowing even to me uh...
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