The next
meeting of the Peconic Estuary Program Management Committee is scheduled for:
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
at 10 a.m.
Cornell Cooperative
Extension of Suffolk County 1st floor Conference Room
423 Griffing Ave.
Riverhead, NY 11901
The Peconic Estuary is
part of the National Estuary Program (NEP), which aims to protect and preserve
nationally significant estuaries that are threatened by pollution, development,
or overuse. The Peconic Estuary was named an “estuary of national significance”
in 1992.
The Peconic Estuary Program is sponsored by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,
and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS). SCDHS operates
the program office and provides the day-to-day management functions and the
technical and administrative support to the program.
This
meeting we will be joined by EPA Headquarters and Regional staff as part of our
National Estuary Program-Program Evaluation site visit. The program evaluation
occurs every four years to access Peconic Estuary Programs accomplishments and
address challenges. We would appreciate if you can attend the MC meeting to
lend some insight into how PEP and our partners work together to protect and
restore the Peconic Estuary.
We
will be touring project sites in Riverhead with the EPA after the meeting.
Contact Alison
Branco, at 631-852-5750, for more information about this meeting.
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