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Report lays out plan for Nissequogue River's future

BY JENNIFER SMITH
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1:01 PM EST, November 24, 2008

An ambitious blueprint for protecting
ecological and recreational resources in and around the Nissequogue River will
be unveiled Monday afternoon at Sunken
Meadow State Park.

Recommendations range from planting eelgrass to
enhance fish and shellfish habitat to improving stormwater management and
studying how local septic systems effect the river's water quality.

The
product of months of collaboration between government agencies, environmental
advocates and citizens, the report sets out concrete goals to improve water
quality, conserve habitat and enhance recreational activities in the
40-square-mile area that drains into the Nissequogue River.

"We'd like to
see these watershed-based projects happen all around Long
Island Sound," said Robert Freudenberg, a senior planner for Long
Island with the Regional Plan Association, which coordinated the
report.

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The Nissequogue River runs through one of the largest coastal
wetlands on the North Shore and is the only major tidal river draining into Long
Island Sound whose coastal portion remains relatively undisturbed. The watershed
is one of 33 areas around Long Island Sound designated as a special stewardship
area by the Long Island Sound Study, a national estuary program created by the
federal Environmental
Protection Agency and the states of New
York and Connecticut.

The
report released Monday will serve as a model for managing the other 32
stewardship areas.

New York State environmental and parks officials are
already at work on one of the goals for the Nissequogue
River watershed: restoring tidal flow and fish passage at Sunken Meadow Creek.
The agencies have begun studies to assess whether removal of an earthen dam
would improve water quality there, Freudenberg said.

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