ALBANY – The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
has granted $246,365 to the Village of New Paltz for replacement of a
culvert system.
The grant is part of the Hudson River Estuary program to help reduce localized
flooding, create sustainable shorelines, improve water quality and restore
aquatic habitat in tributary streams.
The New Paltz project will improve intermittent stream flow and movement
of fish and wildlife by replacing a deteriorated culvert system with adequately-sized
drainage structures at a road and rail trail crossing adjacent to the
Wallkill River.
The new system will also improve the flow of floodwater, and maintain
habitat connections for eel and other species of greatest conservation
need such as the wood turtle.
Another project as part of the Hudson River Estuary grants will see $40,000
for BlueShore Engineering to design a sustainable shorelines demonstration
project for the Nutten Hook shoreline site on the western end of Ferry
Road in the Town of Stuyvesant.
