A Region-Wide Collaboration to Protect the Peconic Bays

 

The Peconic Estuary now has one more organization devoted to its protection, one that draws from natural resource experts in all the towns and villages on the East End.

The Peconic Estuary Protection Committee, approved through an intermunicipal agreement established by the Suffolk County Legislature last year, officially kicked off its work in late October, but the group’s coordinator, Rachel Gruzen, has been working since early this year to coordinate efforts to protect the bays.

The committee was formed at the urging of representatives of the Peconic Estuary Program, whose director, Alison Branco, works under the Suffolk County Health Department’s Office of Ecology. Ms. Branco spearheaded the effort by visiting each of the East End towns to ask them to begin this partnership.   Read More...