New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Archives

04.02.2021 News

Town files suit against state DEC for refusal to grant EPCAL subdivision approval

The Riverhead Town Board is expected to vote on a resolution Tuesday to authorize a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation over its reluctance to...

10.13.2019 Police

Smokey Bear sign stolen from Otis Pike Preserve in Manorville

A Smokey Bear sign installed in Manorville in August was cut down and stolen during the week of Oct. 7 and DEC officials are seeking the public’s help to...

04.10.2018 Environment

PSEG says it will build new pole for osprey nest in Riverside

Saying that PSEG-Long Island subcontractors threw an active osprey nest in Riverside onto the ground after telling the state Department of Environmental Conservation that the nest was inactive, some...

02.07.2018 Environment

DEC decides against extending the scalloping season

The last time Peconic Bay scallops were this plentiful was the winter of 2015, just before six weeks of hard weather put what should have been a five-month harvest...

02.07.2018 Government

LIRR culvert in Aquebogue needs work, DEC seeks comment

The culvert that runs underneath the Long Island Rail Road tracks and Hubbard Avenue in Aquebogue is due for some rehabilitation, and the New York State Department of Environmental...

02.05.2018 Health & Environment

Got bats? The DEC wants to check

People aren’t the only living species wanting to crawl into a warm space on a cold winter day. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has discovered that...

08.26.2016 Environment

Biologist: High temperatures may have caused mussel die-off

What caused thousands of blue mussels to appear along the shoreline in the Jamesport area this week hasn’t officially been determined. However, a local biologist believes the culprit may be rising water temperatures in the...

06.17.2016 Environment

Restored dam, fish ladder on Peconic River opened

For centuries, alewife — a silver-scaled herring-like fish — return to Riverhead’s Peconic River estuary to spawn, making it as far as Grangebel Park to lay their eggs. But a series of...

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