{"id":4906,"date":"2011-10-04T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:54:20","slug":"dec-official-acknowledges-stream-damage-from-post-irene-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/04\/dec-official-acknowledges-stream-damage-from-post-irene-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"DEC official acknowledges stream damage from post-Irene clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4907\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/04\/dec-official-acknowledges-stream-damage-from-post-irene-clean-up\/johnsbrookafter\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4907\" title=\"johnsbrookafter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/johnsbrookafter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/johnsbrookafter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/johnsbrookafter-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/johnsbrookafter-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/johnsbrookafter.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the first time, an official with the state Department of Environmental Confirmation has acknowledged that post-Irene clean-up efforts have caused damage to Adirondack waterways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/out-takes\/2011\/10\/04\/dec-to-restore-streams\/\">Speaking with the Adirondack Explorer magazine<\/a>, Chris Amato, the DEC&#8217;s assistant commissioner for natural resources, said \u201cthere are areas where some of the work that has been done has adversely affected fish habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Amato, the state plans to do restoration and reconstruction work to repair the damage, but he said local officials and clean-up crews weren&#8217;t to blame.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that when people are working to save lives and property, protecting trout habitat is not their first priority,\u201d he said in an interview with the Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>But now that the emergency is over, he said, DEC will assess the work and come up with a plan to repair damaged habitat. Amato said DEC will employ established stream-restoration techniques to recreate natural features such as gravel beds, pools, riffles, bends, and shoreline vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will re-establish the variety of habitat that naturally occurs in streams,\u201d Amato said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The impact of dredging, gravel removal and straightening of streams has been increasingly controversial in the weeks following Irene, though some local government officials feel that the issue has been overblown by the media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/out-takes\/2011\/10\/04\/dec-to-restore-streams\/\">Read the Explorer&#8217;s full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an official with the state Department of Environmental Confirmation has acknowledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,6523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}