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Alley Creek - Queens
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Following a stream cleanup here on April 8, 2017, we will be working with the DEC, NYC Parks, Resource Management, and NYC TU to improve the habitat on this stream and reintroduce brook trout. Improvements will include the removal of man-made dams, mitigation of run-off, and freeing up potential movement of species between all three water systems in this area.
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Bellmore Creek - Wantagh
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In 2011 and 2012, Long Island TU did temperature studies in this river system and worked on reintroducing brook trout. Recently, members have shown a renewed interest in this creek and we have reopened this project. This stream flows into Twin Ponds, which are stocked annually with Brown and Rainbow Trout.
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Carlls River - Babylon
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The Carlls River is the fourth largest watershed on Long Island and the largest in Long Island TU's territory. This is a typical, low-gradient stream, but unlike other streams in Long Island, for large stretches (for instance between Belmont Lake and Southards Pond) the stream has been unaltered from its original sinuous, braided flows. Take a walk here to see the stream weave in, out and around the paths in the parkland and watch for signs designating this a NATIVE (which in Long Island is rare!!) brook trout habitat.
We have begun to reacquaint ourselves with this river by doing some cleanup work, political activism and outreach, and networking. Click on link above for full project progress and scope. |
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Flagg Creek - Welwyn Preserve - Glen Cove
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Welwyn is a beautiful 230+ acre preserve along the water in Glen Cove, Long Island. Once the residence of the guilded age Pratt family, this rolling woodland has been virtually untouched by the modern world. The spring creek that runs down the center of the property into the bay, albeit small, has the potential to hold trout pending some temperature studies and most importantly, improved fish passage. There are a number of culverts and bridges that have collapsed here, cutting off the vital upstream/downstream passage needed for a sustained wild brook trout population.
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Massapequa Creek - Massapequa
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We are currently in discussions with the DEC and Nassau County to begin a conifer revetment program. This involves laying and staking spent Christmas trees along the banks at a strategic point of Massapequa Creek, allowing silt to deposit in and around the embedded, horizontal trees during high water events. Eventually new banks will be established and the river will concentrate it's flows through a narrower channel, thus deepening the channel and exposing gravel and valuable spawning habitat. Additionally, less stream area will be exposed to the warming sun and will help to keep the water cool.
Cool water is especially important to our ecosystem as there is an inverse relationship between temperature and dissolved oxygen - the higher the temperature, the lower the oxygen. This not only affects the stream and fish therein, but cold rivers are the oxygen supplies of bays, on which shellfish and crustaceans are dependent. Click on link above for full project progress and scope. |
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Oyster Bay Watershed Tributaries - Oyster Bay
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This project began in January 2005, when the Long Island Chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU) collaborated with Friends of the Bay and Environmental Defense in applying for a grant under the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Long Island Sound Futures Fund to conduct a fish passage assessment within the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Watershed. The overall goal of the proposed project was to mitigate the impacts of existing barriers on the health of the ecosystems throughout the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor watershed, specifically the depletion of diadromous fish (fishes travel between fresh and salt water) populations caused by fragmentation of stream channels.
Later that same year, we were advised that our application was approved and we had been awarded the grant for the Oyster Bay-Cold Spring Harbor Watershed Fish Passage Assessment Project. In addition, we have conducted an extensive survey of every section of the 12 miles of fresh, coldwater streams that make up the Oyster Bay Watershed - with this information in had, we are now working toward the solutions outlined in the final report. Click on link above for full project progress and scope. |
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