Oyster Bay Coastal Stream Watershed Resiliency Plan

A fragmented stream corridor

Assemblage is providing planning support services to the Seatuck Environmental Association and its partners to develop a conceptual design for improving the connectivity, ecological health, sustainability and resiliency of Beaver Brook, a coastal stream that flows for more than two miles through the Village of Mill Neck and the Hamlet of Locust Valley into the Mill Neck Creek Marsh complex in Oyster Bay, NY. The stream has four dam impoundments with a host of fragmentation and disconnection issues that are reducing the ecological health and viability of the stream corridor. The planning team is working with a large group of diverse stakeholders to gain consensus on a strategy that will better connect the stream corridor, address ecological issues and forthcoming climate risk, while preserving the aesthetic and recreational vitality that local residents love about the area. The expected outcome is a technical analysis of these issues that outlines the nature, feasibility and costs of potential solutions, as well as stakeholder consensus on a strategy for moving forward.