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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Jamaica Bay Oyster Restoration Pilot Project New York City CSO–PLANYC Queens, New York, New York Oyster restoration pilot projects in Jamaica Bay help determine the feasibility of large scale restoration to improve water quality and help protect vulnerable shorelines from erosion. Oysters, which serve as natu- of comprehensive monitoring ral water fi lters, once thrived and ongoing annual monitor- in Jamaica Bay. Due to over- ing suggests that the oysters harvesting and other human are not only able to survive, disturbances, self-sustaining but reproduce, improve water oyster populations are no quality, and enhance the ecol- longer found in the Bay. ogy of the Bay. Laboratory testing also indicated that In an effort to research the the oysters were relatively potential to restore oyster hab- disease-free. itat in Jamaica Bay, Biohabitats and our joint venture partners Throughout the effort, the helped NYCDEP initiate team has been coordinating pilot oyster restoration proj- with other organizations and iohabitats led the ects in two locations within researchers undertaking simi- B implementation of a Jamaica Bay. In October lar efforts in the New York/ range of ecosystem restora- 2010, Biohabitats installed New Jersey Harbor Estuary, tion pilot projects within the an oyster bed off of Dubos and the pilot project is now Jamaica Bay watershed for the Point in Queens and 12 oyster informing other attempts to New York City Department reef balls in Gerritsen Creek restore this signifi cant habitat of Environmental Protection in Brooklyn. The oyster bed type to Jamaica Bay. (NYCDEP). The pilot proj- was constructed with spat-on- ects were fi rst identifi ed in shell to mimic a small reef off SERVICES the Jamaica Bay Watershed the shores of Dubos Point, Inventory & Assessments Protection Plan, which is fo- while the reef balls had been Design cused on cleaning the water of previously set with spat and Permitting the Bay and restoring ecologi- were placed just off shore in Construction Management cal habitats. Gerritsen Creek. Three years Post-construction Monitoring conservation planning ecological restoration regenerative design Physiographic Province Atlantic Coastal Plain Bioregion HUDSON RIVER BIOREGION Hudson River 800.220.0919 Watershed www.biohabitats.com Jamaica Bay.

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