Department of Environmental Conservation

Broad Cove Preserve in Aquebogue has been added to the NYS Birding Trail after habitat restoration and trail improvements. Photos of the preserve.

A USDA lab is conducting more tests to confirm the state's findings, a DEC spokesperson said. The public should avoid contact with any sick or dead birds.

The Riverhead Town Board granted final site plan approval to an already-built go-kart track and pickleball courts at Scott’s Pointe yesterday, despite the amusement park’s operator not meeting all of the conditions previously imposed by the board.

Investigations into the cause and impacts of a fire that "completely destroyed" a Calverton solid waste facility last Wednesday remain ongoing, officials say.

The DEC has now issued tickets to Island Water Park and its president Eric Scott alleging violations of its permit conditions, a week after a notice of violation ordered the Scott's Pointe operator to cease use of the aquapark and other public recreation activities in the groundwater-fed pond.

The operator of Scott’s Pointe in Calverton was ordered by the State Department of Environmental Conservation Wednesday to cease use of the inflatable aquapark and other public recreation in its man-made lake.

Representatives of environmental groups, community groups and local government officials across eastern Suffolk County turned out for a two-hour, wide-ranging conversation with state legislators Thursday morning in Riverhead. 

The site operator, Driftwood Family Farms, has no DEC permit or registration for a mulch processing facility at the 42-acre Calverton site the DEC confirmed this week.

For the first time, the State DEC will undertake the widespread application of herbicides to Ludwigia in the Peconic River, in the hope of eradicating the invasive, noxious weed that has infested about 50 acres of the river since it was first detected there in 2003.

Riverhead Town has filed a lawsuit challenging the DEC’s handling of a n application for a permit needed to subdivide vacant land at the EPCAL site and the agency's position that Suffolk County Water Authority, not the town, has the right to supply water to new development there.