Goals

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

Goal 2: Resilient communities
Objective C
6
Actions
21
Projects

Progress of Actions
Progress of Projects

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Updated since: 07/22/2026

Objective C: Help local communities to take meaningful, well-informed action to prepare for and adapt to climate change impacts in the Peconic Estuary

Distribute CLPS GIS FIles to municipalities (Program Office)

Meet with and encourage municipalities to use the CLPS tool to priortize parels for acquisition (Program Office/ LGC)

Hold training on CLPS tool (Program Office)

TAC: Review progress made by previous efforts (Program Office/ TAC subgroup)

TAC: Make a Plan of Action to address data management and implementaion by partners (Program Office/ TAC subgroup)

Implement CLPS 2025 updates (Program Office/ TAC subgroup)

Creation of PEP Agriculture Workgroup

Agriculture Workgroup define Members (PEP Management Committee Subgroup)

Agriculture Workgroup Final Recommendations (PEP Management Committee Subgroup)

Meetinghouse Creek Stormwater Wetland Conceptual Design Finilized (Program Office)

Meetinghouse Creek Stormwater Wetland Engineering Design Finilized

Meetinghouse Creek Stormwater Wetland Permits Recieved (Program Office)

Meetinghouse Creek finalizing implementation funding Sources (Program Office)

Meetinghouse Creek Implementation (Program Office)

Sag Harbor Rain (Havens Bch/Bay St) Garden Contract Executed (Program Office)

Sag Harbor Rain (Havens Bch/Bay St) Garden Designs finalized

Sag Harbor Rain Garden (Havens Bch/Bay St) Implementation completed

Review research done on groundwater contaminent implications on Seagrass beds

Create plan forward for groundwater contaminent implications on Seagrass beds

Support Riverhead town comprehensive planning

Support Shelter Island comprehensive planning & Wetland Code update

Review Town engagement with Climate Smart Communities

Support Town engagement with Climate Smart Communities

Review Town engagement with LWRP

Support Town engagement with LWRP

Ashawagh Hall Stormwater Abatement Plan

USGS solute transport model

CLPS 2020 (Program Office)

National Atmospheric Depositon Program (NADP) Contract extention to 2025 (Program Office)

Support PEPC: Peconic Estuary Protection Commitee (Program Office)

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Broad Cove SIte (CAC/ Partners)

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Orient State Park

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Widows Hole Preserve

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Edwards Farm Preserve

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Downtown Riverhead

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Indian Island County Park

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: New Suffolk Waterfront

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Bass Creek Mashomack Preserve

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Ms. Annie's Creek Mashomack Preserve

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Elizabeth A. Mortan NWR

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Conscience Point

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Landing Lane, East Hampton

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Louse Pt. East Hampton

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Lazy Point Accabonac Harbor

Mini Grant Project: Project RISE: Montauk Inlet

Microplastics

PRBs monitoring report Tanbark Creek Phase 1

PRBs monitoring report Tanbark Creek Phase II

Widows Hole Living Shoreline-Phase I

Widows Hole Living Shoreline-Phase II

Demonstration Living Shoreline-SCMELC

CLPS 2020 (Program Office)

CLPS 2025 (Program Office)

TAC Discuss data sources to update CLPS tool, May 7,2024 (TAC)

CLPS tool update plan with SBU Geospatial Center (Program Office)

CLPS 2030 (Program Office)

Distribute CLPS GIS FIles to municipalities (Program Office)

Meet with and encourage municipalities to use the CLPS tool to priortize parels for acquisition (Program Office/ LGC)

Hold training on CLPS tool (Program Office)

Review Team: Make Plan of Action to address data management and implementaion by partners (Program Office/ TAC subgroup)

Continue to persue actions to create viable resilient shoreline management policy and technical resources through shoreline adaptation intitiative (Program Office)

Continue to persue actions to support municipal Land conservation/ Acquisition

Continue to persue Eelgrass Management/ habitat restoration (Program Office/ TAC subgroup)

Continue to persue stormwater management/septic upgrads (Program Office)

Continue to persue stormwater infiltration for freshwater recharge

Continue to persue reduction in use of fertilizers and pesticides (Program Office)

Continue to persue bioextraction projects (Program Office)

Continue to persue alternative Fisheries (Program Office)

Continue to persue water conservation & reuse (Program Office)

Continue to persue Invasive species mitigation & population surveys (Program Office)

Create list of existing codes (Program Office/ PEPC)

Hold information meetings with NYSDOS for municipalities (Program Office)

Delivery of the Critical Lands Protection Strategy Maps and ArcGIS data to Peconic Estuary resource managers (Program Office)

Work with NY Sea Grant to establish Shoreline Adaptation Iniative (Program Office & NYSG)

NYSG Law Fellow review town code compared to NYSDOS Model Local Laws (program)

Complete Solute Transport Model (Program Office)

Create a series of scenarios (Program Office)

Review Draft hydrodynamic model (Program Office)

Finalize Model (Program Office)

Determine actions for management use

Identify tools used by Town CPF

Annual SAV monitoring

Aerial Flyover & Groundtruth Methodology QAPP

2024 Aerial flyover

Ground truthing contract SOW

Secure funding for Coastal Watershed Grant: SAV & Temperature refugia study

Create actions on how to use the identified porewater maps for future SAV management

Accabonac Harbor: PEP and Suffolk County contract scope & stakeholder meeting (Program Office)

Accabonac Harbor: PEP and Suffolk County contract executed with regional entity SMARTeams

Accabonac Harbor: Contractor design expansion and finalization of project area (Program Office)

Accabonac Harbor: Final design permitting

Accabonac Harbor: Implementation funding secured

2020 Salt Marsh Surface Elevation Table (SET) Monitoring: PEP Peconic Estuary Partnership measures the surface elevation of the salt marsh at Indian Island County Park, Hubbard County Park, and Cedar Beach of Southold Town. There are multiple elevation tables at each site that measure marsh accretion or subsidence, natural processes that are influenced by sea-level rise, changes in sediment loading, increasing temperatures, and other consequences of climate change. (Program Office)

2021 Salmarsh Elevation Table Monitoring

2022 Salmarsh Elevation Table Monitoring

2023 Salmarsh Elevation Table data compiled, report written and published by researchers who piloted this program at The Nature Conservancy (TAC, partners)

2024 Saltmarsh Elevation Table Monitoring

CHANGES Project

Eel Grass in water

Oysers in water

Kelp in water

Continuous Water Quality Monitoring

Project Outreach

Site Suitability Phase

CHANGES Project

USGS Continuous station Riverhead

USGS Continuous station Shelter Island

USGS Continuous station Orient

Suffolk County Water quality monitoring

  • Implementation of monitoring and reporting of climate change early warning monitoring program parameters

    • Attend meetings (Program Office)

    Provide comments and feedback on strategy document (Program Office)

    PEP Focuses on the Identified Goal: Improve science-based understanding of how interrelated components of the ocean ecosystem function through dedicated research and long-term monitoring programs.

    Continue to pursue research based projects and monitoring

    Identify sufficient funding to hire additional outreach staff to assist in designing and implementing this effort.

    Outreach to Local Government Committee on use of CLPS tool

    Hire additional outreach staff to assist in designing and implementing this effort.

    Create public awareness outreach goals & actions

    Continuously add stakeholders to Shoreline Adaptaion Initiative

    Draft public outreach materials guided by needs assessment

    Finalize public outreach materials guided by needs assessment

    Disseminate public outreach materials created

    Living Shoreline Demonstration Project at the Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center (Program Office)

    Educational sign installed at site (Program Office)

    Hold Field Trip to site (Program Office)

    On-line resource development (Program Office)

    Bulkhead Removal Project: Site Selection: Cold Spring Pond (TAC)

    Bulkhead Removal Project: Conceptual Designs (Program Office)

    Outreach on PEP Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Action Plan (Program Office)

    CRA 2025 (Program Office)

    Shinnecock Nation Climate Ready Assessment (Program Office)

    Shinnecock Indian Nation Mini Grant Award (Program Office)

    Secure funding via Mini Grant Porgram, IIJA Funds

    Bioextraction mini grant project with Shinnecock Nation

    Support shinnecock natural resource department in wetlands monitoring and management