ALBANY – The state Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded three grants totaling $382,500 for culvert replacement projects to help restore aquatic habitat in tributary streams of the Hudson River estuary, reduce localized flooding and improve water quality.
The Town of Ancram will receive $220,000 to replace two or more culverts on the Roeliff Jansen Kill within the Punch Brook and Shekomeko sub-watersheds that are too small to pass floodwaters under current and predicted rainfall events. The culverts are also barriers to the movement of the American eel and brown trout. Stream crossings will be redesigned and resized to improve stream flow and capacity, and to maintain stream-bottom habitat for aquatic organisms.
Scenic Hudson will receive $97,500 to replace the remnants of a perched culvert and berm structure on the Klyne Esopus Kill. Replacing the current culvert/berm with a right-sized, bottomless culvert and reconstruction of the Klyne Esopus Kill streambed will be designed to function under 500-year storm conditions, allowing the crossing to remain open during high water and high precipitation events.
Sawkill Creek Tributary in the Town of Ulster will receive $65,000 to have an existing perched, steel-pipe culvert on a tributary replaced. The culvert is a well-known constriction point under relatively low-flow events, and water back-up has caused property damage to adjacent local landowners,
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