New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Archives

10.25.2022 Environment

Students become citizen scientists as they gather data of Peconic Estuary at Indian Island County Park

Equipped with chest-high waders, fishing nets, binoculars, collection buckets and more, students from elementary to high school age became citizen scientists Friday. The students, including a group from the...

07.06.2022 Health

DEC providing bottled water to homes in Calverton where ‘forever chemicals’ detected; county health department issues water quality advisory

Areas along both Middle Road in Riverhead and Pinehurst Boulevard in the Brookhaven Town section of Calverton are having similar problems with groundwater contamination. The New York State Department...

02.23.2022 News

Peconic Paddler proposal requires wetlands permit; comment period open until March 4

The owners of the Peconic Paddler property on Peconic Avenue in Riverside will need approvals from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for a freshwater wetlands permit,...

12.10.2021 Government

Calverton property owners facing DEC violations for operating without permit

The Riverhead Planning Board is giving Breezy Hills Group IV until its December meeting to remove all solid waste material from its Middle Road property in Calverton, where it...

10.30.2021 Government

Judge rules against Riverhead Town in ongoing dispute with DEC

An Albany County Judge last month dismissed two Riverhead Town petitions seeking to annul two “notices of incomplete application” rulings made against the town by the New York State...

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...

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