Protecting & Restoring Long Island's Peconic Bays
A stormwater wetland construction project.
The 2.61 acre Town of Riverhead property is bordered by the Aquebogue Cemetery to the west and private property to the east and south, including the Crescent Duck Farm downstream of the site.
Meetinghouse Creek is one of many small tributaries that drain the North Fork of Long Island to the Peconic Estuary. The area has been settled and farmed since the 1600s, resulting in a heavily modified landscape and drainage patterns.
The topography north of the project site is gently undulating with local depressions that appear to collect and infiltrate stormwater runoff but no discernable surface water drainage channels. Stormwater inlets along Church Lane and Main road collect runoff that discharges into the project site.
With funding from tInvestment in Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA), PEP is allocating $600,000 of BIL Funds towards the Meetinghouse Creek Wetland Restoration.
Meetinghouse Creek forms part of the “Meetinghouse and Terry Creek and Tributaries” segment of the Peconic Estuary. The waterbody segment was listed as impaired for dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and pathogens on NYSDEC’s list of impaired waterbodies
The Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) is the guiding framework for protecting and restoring the Peconic Estuary and its watershed.
Action 12
Mitigate Climate Change through coastal ecosystem management
Action 21
Expand non-point source sub-watershed management plans to all pathogen impaired waterbodies and continue to use existing plans.
