Peconic Estuary Program Archives

12.19.2024 Environment

Oyster shell collection program benefits land and sea

Seafood connoisseurs consume oysters throughout most of the year across Long Island — often haphazardly discarding the empty shells slurp after slurp. But local advocates say those shells could...

02.14.2024 Environment

Town and county preserve 32 acres in Cutchogue

In a partnership with Suffolk County, Southold Town will preserve more than 30 acres on the north side of County Road 48 as open space in Cutchogue to help...

02.13.2024 Environment

East End environmental roundtable meets again

For at least the 20th time — no one present seemed to know just when it all began — state legislators convened for an environmental roundtable in Riverhead last...

09.28.2021 Environment

For the first time, East End towns matching federal funds for Peconic Estuary program

Southold Town plans to contribute $24,500 from its general funds to the Peconic Estuary Partnership, a national program dedicated to improving water quality in the Peconic watershed. Towns across...

04.13.2021 Environment

Under state budget, Peconic Estuary Program to receive twice the funding

An organization focused on protecting the waterways and wetlands surrounding Peconic Bay is set to get a major boost in funding under the state budget. The Peconic Estuary Partnership...

11.29.2019 Business

Local restaurants shift gears after scallop die-off

This season’s scallop die-off — and the resulting dismal harvest — has restaurateurs, baymen and ecologists deeply worried.

06.15.2019 Environment

Final phase of living shoreline project underway in Greenport

Five years in the making, Peconic Estuary Program’s first living shoreline is coming to fruition as Greenport Elementary School students gathered Monday with representatives of community organizations to complete...

05.07.2019 Environment

Director of Peconic Estuary Program outlines updates on program

The Peconic Estuary Program, one of 28 national estuary programs mandated by the 1972 Clean Water Act, will be seeking local input this summer on community areas that residents...

09.14.2018 Environment

Federal funds to restore habitat at Cedar Beach Creek

Federal funds have been allocated for a restoration project at Cedar Beach, Congressman Lee Zeldin announced last Friday. According to a Habitat Restoration Plan prepared by the Peconic Estuary...

A newly hatched piping plover photographed last Thursday on Cedar Beach in Southold. (Credit: Tom Reichert)

08.07.2018 Environment

Cedar Beach in Southold to become ‘living shoreline’

Along coastlines around the globe, including here on the North Fork, climate change poses the threat of sea level rise. For decades, “shoreline hardening,” by adding manmade seawalls and...

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