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Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan (LINAP) News & UpdatesWelcome to the first LINAP Quarterly newsletter! This newsletter highlights the activities that our LINAP partners are engaged in to reduce nitrogen in Long Island’s surface and ground waters. Newsletters will be sent quarterly with relevant updates on the advances being made throughout the planning and action phases. In between newsletters, bulletins with additional information about LINAP will also be sent to this mailing list. This issue’s topics:
What’s Next
Nassau County
Suffolk County
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
The Center for Clean Water Technology at Stony Brook University (CCWT)
Stony Brook University – School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)
The Peconic Estuary Program (PEP)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (DAM)
The Long Island South Shore Estuary Reserve (Reserve)
Seatuck Environmental Association
About the LINAPLINAP will determine how best to reduce nitrogen In 2015, New York State appropriated $5 million to develop the LINAP. Long Island’s legislative delegation, with support from local environmental organizations, successfully championed funding for LINAP, which will be one of the most significant environmental initiatives since the preservation of the Pine Barrens. A draft LINAP scope was prepared with stakeholder How is LINAP Managed?A Project Management Team (PMT), made up of NYSDEC, LIRPC, and both counties, is responsible for administration and management, including: scope, budget, schedule, contract, consultant assessment and oversight, annual work plan, interagency agreements, coordination, outreach, reporting and implementation. The PMT established four Technical Workgroups of local, regional, and national experts to advise the team: Data Collection & Analysis, Technical & Engineering, Fertilizer Management, and Implementation. |