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Coalition plan would protect Nissequogue watershed

BY JENNIFER SMITH
| mailto:[email-masked]&subject=Coalition%20plan%20would%20protect%20Nissequogue%20watershed

November 25, 2008

Standing atop a riverside dam at Sunken
Meadow State Park, a coalition of officials, environmental advocates and
citizens announced an ambitious blueprint yesterday for protecting the
Nissequogue River watershed.

From planting eelgrass beds to reducing
pollution from local septic systems, the report laid out 110 concrete goals to
improve water quality, conserve habitat and enhance recreation in the
40-square-mile area that drains into the river.

The recommendations came
out of more than two years of meetings among residents, civic groups and
government agencies, said Robert Freudenberg of the Regional Plan Association,
which coordinated the project.

"The Nissequogue watershed is critically
important to the health of Long
Island Sound," said state Assemb. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-St. James), adding
that "the hard work starts now."

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He and others said the next step was finding ways to pay for
the many recommendations - a challenge, given the tough economic
climate.

The Nissequogue River runs through one of the largest coastal
wetlands on the North Shore. Ospreys and piping plovers nest there; the river
also hosts important sport fish such as striped bass and brook trout and others
vital to the food chain, such as alewife.

It is the only major New
York state 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 federal and state
environmental agencies. The report will serve as a model for managing the other
32 stewardship areas.

"We're going to really look hard to see where we
can provide additional funding for these actions," said Mark Tedesco of the Long
Island Sound Study.

Work is already under way on one recommendation:
restoring tidal flow at Sunken Meadow Creek, where a dam built in the 1940s now
limits the exchange of fresh and salt water. Improved flow would help flush
pollutants from the creek and allow certain fish such as alewives to move
upstream to spawn.

State environmental and parks officials have embarked
on a feasibility study to see whether reconfiguring the dam would improve
habitat there.

Options include eliminating the dam entirely or perhaps
widening the culverts to allow greater flow while leaving the dam in place, said
Charles Guthrie, regional fisheries manager for the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation.

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