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239 actions in
37 action areas
Watersheds of LIS
Success: Declines in big sources of N
Source Trend Description
35
30
25
20
WLA
15
10
5
0
Target NY CT 13
Maximum Area/Duration of Hypoxia
Pre-TMDL Area Ave. = 208 mi2 Post-TMDL Area Ave. = 176 mi2
Duration = 56.2 Duration = 56.3 Warmest
spring on
record
450 100
88
400 82 90
79
LIS Surface Area = 1,320 mi2
350 73 73 80
68 69
64 66 65
300 61 62 70
58 58
55 55 53 54 60
250 49 51
48
Days
45 50
41 40
200
35 34 35 35 40
150
30
100 20
50 10
0 0
1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
Historical
eelgrass
distribution by
Town (black
dot)
Restored 1,548
acres of habitat since
1998, 77% of 2000 Opened 300 miles
acres by 2020 goal. of riverine migratory
corridors to
diadromous fish Protected 2,580
since 1998. acres of land
since 2006
Success: Innovation and Integrated Science
Coastal
Food web resiliency
changes
Challenge: Sustainability
Growth and
development
Transportation
Energy
and water
use
Infrastructure upgrades Challenge: Progress on
Nutrient and Pathogen
Pollution
Lawns
Storm
water
Septic systems
Challenge: Connecting Everyone
to the Sound
Preserving open space Public access
for recreation
Environmental
justice
CCMP Update
Strategic Priorities
Science and Management Protection and Restoration
•Understanding the value of • Enhance N reduction
ecosystem goods and services • tributary states, runoff, turf
•Wetland loss, changing food web, fertilizer, septic systems
increased susceptibility to hypoxia
• Consider embayment
•Report cards on water and conditions: HABs, SAV, shellfish
habitat quality with targets for • Continue to protect and restore
improvement habitat with consideration of climate
•Maintain open water change
monitoring and expand citizen • Support sustainability and climate
science in embayments adaptation
•Broaden the base of support • Build partnerships in EJ
by working in EJ communities communities
CCMP Update Structure
4 4 15 39 106 136
Ecosystem Targets
• Reduce the area of waters with unhealthy oxygen levels.
Ecosystem Targets
• Reopen 200 miles of river to fish.
• Increase the area of eelgrass habitat by 2,000 acres and the area of
tidal wetlands by 532 acres.
• Maintain navigable channels in harbors and bays while protecting the environment.
• Increase the awareness and knowledge of Long Island Sound issues and solutions.
• Reduce by 50% the number of beach-day closures due to poor water quality.
• Decrease the amount of marine debris affecting the shoreline and waters.
• Increase access points and shoreline length accessible to the public by 10%.
Four Themes
Desired Outcomes
• Increase the scientific understanding of Long Island Sound to
support management through strengthened research, monitoring,
assessment, mapping, and modeling.
Presentation will
be posted soon
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