Quiet Clean Port Jefferson

06/05/2026

Suffolk County is advising residents to limit outdoor activity because of poor air quality, yet gas-powered leaf blowers continue to add unnecessary pollution to our neighborhoods every day, air quality alert days included. Every day is a bad air quality day here because of reckless use of gas-powered leaf blowers.

The archaic two stroke engines spew toxins, does Suffolk County Health care about the health of the workers that used these harmful machines?
If they are serious about protecting public health, reducing avoidable sources of air pollution should be part of the conversation instead of telling people to stay inside.

The Suffolk County Department of Health Services is advising residents of an air quality health advisory issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for June 5 for Long Island and New York City.

Suffolk County Health Services Commissioner Dr. Gregson Pigott advises that all residents, especially young children, seniors, those who exercise outdoors, and those with preexisting respiratory or heart problems limit strenuous outdoor activity. Ozone levels are often elevated after 12 p.m. through early evening on hot, sunny days. If you experience eye, nose and throat irritation, shortness of breath or chest pain, contact your medical provider.

Ozone is the principal component of the mixture of air pollutants known as smog that is produced from the action of sunlight on air contaminants from automobile exhausts and other sources.

For the air quality index in your area, visit www.AirNow.gov.

06/04/2026

Today I tried to sit in my backyard while a landscaping company next door operated two gas-powered leaf blowers directly along my property line.

The noise measured approximately 85 dBA — far above our local noise ordinance. They spent their time blowing dirt and dust around while filling the area with noise, exhaust fumes, and airborne debris.

I politely asked if they could stop because I couldn't enjoy my own backyard.

Their response: "Go inside."

Apparently the expectation is that residents should surrender the use of their own property so landscapers can continue blowing dirt around.

This wasn't landscaping. It wasn't cleanup. It was noise, exhaust, dust, and disruption imposed on everyone nearby for no meaningful purpose.

No resident should be told to go inside their home because someone else wants to operate gas-powered leaf blowers at the property line.

And yet this happens every day in communities across the country.

Why is this being allowed to happen??!!

06/04/2026

By: Ron Dunsky, Climate & Energy Committee Member It’s springtime, which means that along with the welcome sounds of birds, dogs, kids playing and bicycles riding we can also expect the less welcome arrival of gas-powered lawn and landscaping equipment. As the season progresses, this will turn int...

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

🚨 **THIS IS NOT LANDSCAPING: WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY DOING?** 🚨

Seriously. Watch the video.

👷‍♂️🚚 Forget the fact these are landscaping workers.

If you saw this for the first time, what would you think?

❓ **Why are those guys walking around blowing dirt around?**

What you're seeing isn't landscaping. It's workers using gas-powered leaf blowers to blow dirt around for no sane reason.

📍 **THIS IS THE LANDSCAPING INDUSTRY'S STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE**

It happens every day, in communities all across the country.

💰 **WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS?**

Who is paying for workers to spend their day walking around blowing dirt around?

Who is managing this work and deciding it is necessary?

Why are property owners accepting it?

And perhaps most importantly:

**Why are communities expected to tolerate it?**

🏛️ **THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITIES ARE DEBATING**

Communities hold hearings, residents testify, and village boards debate restrictions.

Municipalities consider bans.

Landscaping companies, trade associations, and industry groups fight them, oppose them, and warn of economic consequences.

And then the public watches a video like this and asks:

🤔 **Wait... they're fighting this hard to protect this?**

⚠️ **EVERYONE LOSES. NOBODY WINS.**

The workers are exposed to harmful noise, dust, and toxic exhaust.

Residents lose the ability to enjoy their homes, gardens, patios, conversations, and quiet afternoons both indoors and out.

🌎 The environment absorbs the needless pollution.

🏛️ Local governments are forced to spend time and resources responding to complaints, debating restrictions, and dealing with conflicts that should never have existed in the first place.

📉 Landscaping companies create angry neighbors, damage their reputation, generate complaints, fuel restrictions and bans, and turn potential customers into critics.

And when it's all over?

❗ **The property is no better. The only measurable outcome is more noise, more dust, more pollution, and more frustration.**

🚫 **ENOUGH - THIS MADNESS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.**

We've tolerated the noise, pollution, disruption, and sheer senselessness of these practices for far too long.

05/30/2026

It never ends, no day is safe, it is almost impossible to get a couple of hours in a day to avoid the ghastly noise these machines produce. This is no way to live.

🚨 Every day. All day. Weekends and holidays included. Almost year round.
Commercial landscapers will run gas-powered leaf blowers no matter what, with no regard for their workers, the people in the community, or the environment.
🌧️ Raining? Blowing.
⚠️ Bad air quality day? Blowing.
📜 Ordinances in place? Still blowing.
🚶 People nearby? Still blowing.
☀️ Middle of the summer with no leaves on the ground? Still blowing.

All with loud industrial-level machines flooding entire neighborhoods with noise, exhaust, and dust.
There is often no actual reason for it other than habit, ignorance, and billing for time.
Entire neighborhoods are forced to listen to hours of screaming engines and breathe dust and exhaust because crews mindlessly walk around blasting air at pavement, mulch, and a few scattered leaves.
🤦 People are sick of the noise.
😷 Sick of the fumes.
🔊 Sick of the nonstop disruption.
THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE

05/24/2026

🚨 Every day. All day. Weekends and holidays included. Almost year round.
Commercial landscapers will run gas-powered leaf blowers no matter what, with no regard for their workers, the people in the community, or the environment.
🌧️ Raining? Blowing.
⚠️ Bad air quality day? Blowing.
📜 Ordinances in place? Still blowing.
🚶 People nearby? Still blowing.
☀️ Middle of the summer with no leaves on the ground? Still blowing.

All with loud industrial-level machines flooding entire neighborhoods with noise, exhaust, and dust.
There is often no actual reason for it other than habit, ignorance, and billing for time.
Entire neighborhoods are forced to listen to hours of screaming engines and breathe dust and exhaust because crews mindlessly walk around blasting air at pavement, mulch, and a few scattered leaves.
🤦 People are sick of the noise.
😷 Sick of the fumes.
🔊 Sick of the nonstop disruption.
THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE

05/21/2026

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05/19/2026

Every day in Suffolk County is a bad air day because of archaic, harmful gas-powered leaf blowers.

The Suffolk County Department of Health Services is advising residents of an air quality health advisory issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for Tuesday, May 19, for Long Island and New York City.

Suffolk County Health Services Commissioner Dr. Gregson Pigott advises that all residents, especially young children, seniors, those who exercise outdoors, and those with preexisting respiratory or heart problems limit strenuous outdoor activity. Ozone levels are often elevated after 12 p.m. through early evening on hot, sunny days. If you experience eye, nose and throat irritation, shortness of breath or chest pain, contact your medical provider.

Ozone is the principal component of the mixture of air pollutants known as smog that is produced from the action of sunlight on air contaminants from automobile exhausts and other sources.

For the air quality index in your area, visit www.AirNow.gov.