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Natural Resource Management Plan for the Wappinger Creek Watershed Natural Resource Management Plan For the Wappinger Creek Watershed Prepared by the: Dutchess County Environmental Management Council Dutchess County Soil and Water Conservation District Wappinger Creek Watershed Planning Committee Dutchess County Water Quality Strategy Committee With assistance from: Marist College Institute of Ecosystem Studies Dutchess County Department of Health Mid-Hudson Chapter of Trout Unlimited Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County Land Use Law Center at Pace University School of Law YRDC-AmeriCorps Glynwood Center ImpAct, LLC Primary support was provided by: United States Environmental Protection Agency Wetlands Demonstration Grant Under Section 104 (b) (3) of the Clean Water Act NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Watershed Planning Grant under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act Rural New York Grant Program Dutchess County Staff for the project: Barbara Kendall, Executive Director, Dutchess County Environmental Management Council Edwin Hoxsie, Executive Director, Dutchess County Soil & Water Conservation District Dave Burns, Watershed Coordinator, DC Environmental Management Council Dalene Varney, Watershed Technician DC Environmental Management Council Bernadette Goebel, Program Assistant, DC Environmental Management Council Sarah Love, GIS Project Manager, DC Environmental Management Council Cara Stackpoole, GIS Technician, DC Environmental Management Council Meredith Hummel, Educator, DC Soil & Water Conservation District Amy DeGaetano, AEM Coordinator, DC Soil & Water Conservation District Sarah Murphy, Administrative Assistant, DC Environmental Management Council John Horton, AmeriCorps, DC Environmental Management Council Mark Maglienti, AmeriCorps, Hudson Basin RiverWatch/IES Rachel Fleishman, AmeriCorps, DCEMC/Hudson Basin RiverWatch Jodi Match, Land Use Law Center, Pace University Volunteers and Advisers to the Wappinger Creek Watershed Planning Committee: Wayne Thompson, Chairman, 1995-1999 Mary Haley, Aquatic Explorers Bruce Donegan, Chairman, 1999-Present Ruthanna Hawkins, Pleasant Valley Mark Burdick, Vice Chair, 1995-1996 Cindy Langdon, Clinton, Long Pond Assoc. Lucy Jones, Vice-Chair, 1999-Present Calvin Lawrence, DC Legislator, Wappingers Falls Russ Balletto, Milan Thomas Lynch, Ph.D., Marist College Ray Belding, Village of Wappingers Falls Joseph Meiller, Pine Plains Jesse Bontecou, Stanford Alissa Perreault, Wappinger Eileen Chadwick, Wappinger Meta Plotnik, Pleasant Valley Martha Cheo, IES, Hudson Basin RiverWatch Jo Pulvermacher, Washington John Churins, DC Water & Wastewater Authority Bill Relyea, Clinton Jack Cleary, Clinton June Sanderson, Clinton Norene Coller, Clinton Cliff Schwark, Beekman Rebecca Crist, DC Water & Wastewater Authority Laura Silvernail, Pleasant Valley Sandra David, Pine Plains Neil Sinclair, LaGrange Bill Duckery, NRCS Laura Toonkel, Washington Pat Ferracane, NYSDEC Russell Urban-Mead, Chazen Companies Margaret Fettes, DC Legislator, Washington Tim Vilinskis, LaGrange Stuart Findlay, Ph.D., IES Arthur Weiland, Clinton Frank Genova, Washington Vivian Walsh, Pine Plains Mike Goebel, Village of Wappingers Falls Joe Will, Aquatic Explorers Steve Gotovich, Stanford Ross Williams, ImpAct, LLC Dave Graves, NYSDOT Jay Wilmarth, Pine Plains Natural Resource Management Plan for the Wappinger Creek Watershed TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ................................................................................................. 1 I. Introduction .......................................................................................................... 6 Purpose of Plan.......................................................................................................................... 6 General Description................................................................................................................... 6 Problem Statement..................................................................................................................... 6 Goals and Objectives.................................................................................................................. 7 Past and Current Activities........................................................................................................ 8 II. Description of the Watershed ............................................................................ 9 Watershed Boundary ................................................................................................................. 9 Subwatersheds............................................................................................................................ 9 Surface Water........................................................................................................................... 12 Vegetation................................................................................................................................. 13 Wetlands ................................................................................................................................... 14 Topography, Drainage and Floodplains................................................................................. 17 Geology, Soils and Groundwater............................................................................................. 19 Climate and Acid Rain............................................................................................................. 23 Wildlife & Fisheries................................................................................................................. 23 Demographics .......................................................................................................................... 24 Recreation ................................................................................................................................ 24 Agriculture: Wappinger Watershed is Pilot for New York State Initiative ........................... 26 Land Use Regulations and Zoning.......................................................................................... 28 III. Water Quality in the Wappinger Creek Watershed .................................... 29 Introduction..............................................................................................................................29 Wappinger Creek Watershed Stream Monitoring Study........................................................ 29 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 29 Nutrients: Nitrogen ............................................................................................................... 30 Nutrients: Phosphorus...........................................................................................................30 Suspended Solids .................................................................................................................. 31 Fecal Coliform Bacteria........................................................................................................ 31 METHODS ........................................................................................................................... 32 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION........................................................................................... 33 i Natural Resource Management Plan for the Wappinger Creek Watershed Land Use Effects on the Filtering Capacity of Selected Wappinger Creek Watershed Wetlands, 1999 ......................................................................................................................... 37 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 37 METHODS ........................................................................................................................... 37 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION........................................................................................... 37 Biological Monitoring Study ................................................................................................... 39 METHODS ........................................................................................................................... 39 RESULTS and DISCUSSION.............................................................................................. 39 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................... 40 IV. Analysis of Sources of Pollution ..................................................................... 41 Problem definition ................................................................................................................... 41 Subwatershed Impact Summaries ............................................................................................47 Wappinger Creek Headwaters .............................................................................................. 47 Cold Spring Creek ................................................................................................................ 50 Little Wappinger Creek......................................................................................................... 50 Hunns Lake Creek................................................................................................................. 53 Grist Mill Creek...................................................................................................................
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