Goals

Goal: Strong Partnerships
Goal: Resilient Communities
Goal: Clean Waters
Goal: Healthy Ecosystem

Goal 3: Clean waters
Objective F
3
Actions
24
Projects

Progress of Actions
Progress of Projects

Completed   In-Progress   Unexecuted
Updated since: 10/29/2024

Objective F: Reduce current and future inputs of toxics, pathogens, and marine debris into groundwater and surface waters, and minimize their impacts

  • Research into the types, sources, and impacts of toxic contaminants
  • Establishment of hydrodynamic modeling of the Peconic Estuary

    • Support Accabonac Wetland Complex mosquito monitoring program to reduce pesticide spraying in marsh

    Continual messaging via website and social media of municipal STOP Days

    Peconic Friendly Yard Initiative

    Educate on Peconic friendly marinas

    Initiate plan for boating

    On-going support of Accabonac Harbor mosquito control community program with East Hampton Town

    NYSDEC is carrying this out

  • Development of strategies and outreach materials to help achieve stormwater reduction goals
  • Development of a Quality Assurance Management Plan (QAMP) to enable sampling, analysis, and reporting of ground and surface water by municipalities

    • Collation and dissemination of information about stormwater outfalls and sources

    Map of all outfalls

    Assistance to Towns to remove direct discharges of stormwater

    Goose Creek Discharge Elimination

  • Review of current PEP Non-Point Source Subwatershed Management Plans and initiation of select viable projects

    • Reporting and monitoring of vessel pump-out facilities

    Map of Boat Pump Out facilities in the Peconics

  • Funds identified for a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-certified lab in Suffolk County

  • Collect additional data on microplastics by USGS in the Peconic Estuary and dissemination of existing information
  • Scope of Work for microplastic research and identification of sources in the watershed
  • Deployment, maintenance, and promotion of monofilament fishing line collection receptacles
  • Add new sites (three) 2022
  • Annual coastal clean-ups
  • Participate in Ocean Clean-Up annually
  • Development of local government initiatives to reduce plastic pollution
  • Support East Hampton Trustees to ban balloon sale and release in East Hampton and Southampton
  • Support NYS to stop plastic shopping bags
  • Engagement of local communities to reduce aquatic trash with support from EPA