Past Projects (Some Ongoing)
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NORTH SHORE
1. Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Watershed – Tributary Assessment & Fish Passage Feasibility Study – Beaver Brook Temperature Study [2011 – 2013] – Beaver Brook Adopt-a-Trout (with Hofstra University) – Beaver Brook (Shu Swamp) - Brook Trout Restoration – Beaver Lake Dam Fish Ladder Replacement (with NYS DEC and USFWS) – Beekman Creek Restoration (with Friends of the Bay) 2. Fuchs Pond Restoration Project – Crab Meadow Creek Temperature Study [2011 – 2012] 3. Nissequogue River Watershed – Watershed Management Plan – Nissequogue River Temperature Study [2011 – 2013] – Harrison Pond Dam Breach & Harrison Creek Restoration |
SOUTH SHORE
1. Bellmore Creek Watershed - Temperature Study [2011 – 2012] - Brook Trout Restoration 2. Massapequa Creek Watershed - Watershed Management Plan - Massapequa Creek Temperature Study [2007 – 2013] - Massapequa Preserve Streamflow Augmentation & Pond Restoration (with NCDPW) - Brook Trout Restoration - Massapequa Lake Fish Ladder (with South Shore Estuary Reserve) Liberty Industrial Finishing Superfund Site Restoration 3. Carlls River Watershed - Watershed Management Plan - Carlls River Temperature Study [2002 - - Argyle Lake Fish Passage (with Village of Babylon) 4. Connetquot River Hatchery / Trout Management Plan 5. Greens Creek / Browns River Watershed - Watershed Management Plan - Browns River Fish Passage Assessment |
Fuchs Pond Initiative
Fuchs Pond is located on the North Shore, part of the Crab Meadow Wetlands in Northport, Town of Huntington NY, adjacent to the L.I. Sound. In 2003, the Town and County jointly purchased the 20 acres of Fuchs property for $3.8 million dollars. In April of 2009, Trout Unlimited (TU) member Bill O'Brien, brought the serious Fuchs Pond flooding and massive tree destruction to the attention of Trout Unlimted, the Town of Huntington, and Suffolk County. Since 1970 Bill was aware that the Pond had housed a Brook Trout population. The cause of the flooding was determined to be a collapsed Pond outflow pipe. In February 2010, Bill presented a proposal to correct the flooding to over fourteen County, Town and environmental representatives, including TU.
John Fischer, (also a member of Trout Unlimited) on behalf of Bill, represented Trout Unlimited at a Huntington Town Hall meeting. As a result of a presentation prepared by Bill, the Town of Huntington passed a resolution on April 13, 2010 appointing a committee (of which John and Bill are members of) to advise on the protection of not only the 20 acres of Fuchs Pond, but the entire 670 acres of the Crab Meadow Wetlands. Fuchs Pond is a primary freshwater source for the entire 670 acre Crab Meadow Wetland.
In December 2010, the County and DEC replaced the Pond's old weir and outlet pipes with an entire new system lowering the Pond level ...an initial objective of the Fuchs Pond Reclamation Project.
Recently, the Town received a Iroquois Gas $4000 hydrology study grant for the Crab Meadow Project, part of which will be used to purchase data loggers.
For a complete overview, check out a visual timeline of the complete project.
John Fischer, (also a member of Trout Unlimited) on behalf of Bill, represented Trout Unlimited at a Huntington Town Hall meeting. As a result of a presentation prepared by Bill, the Town of Huntington passed a resolution on April 13, 2010 appointing a committee (of which John and Bill are members of) to advise on the protection of not only the 20 acres of Fuchs Pond, but the entire 670 acres of the Crab Meadow Wetlands. Fuchs Pond is a primary freshwater source for the entire 670 acre Crab Meadow Wetland.
In December 2010, the County and DEC replaced the Pond's old weir and outlet pipes with an entire new system lowering the Pond level ...an initial objective of the Fuchs Pond Reclamation Project.
Recently, the Town received a Iroquois Gas $4000 hydrology study grant for the Crab Meadow Project, part of which will be used to purchase data loggers.
For a complete overview, check out a visual timeline of the complete project.