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   Ongoing   In-Progress   Unexecuted
Updated since: 07/24/2026

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

    Research GIS- assessment of possible expansion of East Hampton Mosquito Sampling Program

    Create toolkit & report out for project expansion

    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 (PEPC)

  • 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 (Program Office)

    • 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