Goal 3: Clean waters
Objective E
Actions
Projects
Progress of Actions
Progress of Projects
Completed In-Progress Unexecuted
Updated since: 10/29/2024
Objective E: Increase understanding of nutrient pollution in groundwater and surface waters, and decrease negative impacts from legacy, current, and future nutrient inputs
Facilitate stakeholder meetings to guide the process
Provide scenarios with completed model
Final model released
Weekly monitoring at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) rain and atmospheric deposition gauge at Cedar Beach, Southold, NY.
Report finalized
On-line tool complete
Coordinate with LINAP to compile projects
Coordinate with Suffolk County to compile projects
Coordinate with academic partners to compile list
Annual review of parameters reporting
Addition of TN in annual report
Establishment of PEP Priority Embayments
Establishment of Embayment monitoring prootocol
Embayment Water Quality Reporting
Peconic River Water Quality Reporting
Use of EPA Water Quality Exchange (WQX)
Hold Commuity meetings about homeowner upgrade of septic and cesspools to I/A systems
Suffolk County law passed to require I/A systems on all new construction and home upgrades
Increased funding and expanded outreach for PEP’s Homeowner Rewards Program,
BIL Septic upgrades and I/A maintence middle income
Shelter Island fertigation project
Hold Riverhead Water Re-use educational tours
Member of the RCPP
Creation of the PEP Agriculture workgroup
PRB Monitoring - Tanbark Creek: Develop a PRB monitoring plan that is approved by the Peconic Estuary Partnership and the East Hampton Water Quality Technical Review Committee (WQTAC).
PRB Monitoring - Tanbark Creek: One year of Monitoring as per the parameters and frequency established in the Monitoring Plan.
Second year of monitoring
Hold Commuity meetings about homeowner upgrade of septic and cesspools to I/A systems
Suffolk County Government
Tanbark-Creek-Long-Term-PRB-Performance-Monitoring-Data-Report-Final-with-Appendix.pdf
PRB Monitoring - Tanbark Creek: One year of Monitoring as per the parameters and frequency established in the Monitoring Plan.
Tanbark-Creek-Long-Term-PRB-Performance-Monitoring_final.pdf