Rusty Spinner
Well-known member
Hello NY and NJ Trout Unlimited leaders and other dedicated conservationists,
I am very pleased to announce to you that the Horton Brook Floodplain Restoration and Bank Stabilization Project on New York City DEP land at their aqueduct air shaft property is nearing completion.
Next week the project team will finish hydroseeding the site and replacing topsoil. Over the past five weeks, NYC DEP operations staff moved 16,000 cubic yards of tunnel muck material away from Horton Brook and recreated 300 foot long floodplain and regraded the eroding back from the stream edge. NYC DEP volunteered tens of thousands of dollars in operator time and equipment and remained committed to this project over a number of years. The Town of Colchester donated the use of 2 dump trucks for over a month. A substantial grant from the Trout & Salmon Foundation to the Beamoc Chapter, Trout Unlimited chapters from NY and NJ, the NY State Council, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and Millennium Pipeline donated thousands of dollars to help cover costs of an excavator rental, stormwater protection material, grass seed, trees, tree guards, and compost. Greene County Soil & Water Conservation District has donated the hydroseeder, mulch and staff time. After over 8 years of planning and persistence, we will complete this project with the tree planting this fall, and reduce flood damage and bank erosion into Horton Brook, one of the key spawning tributaries in all of the Beaver Kill. This project will also help reduce erosion that contributes to the formation of the large gravel bar at the mouth of Horton Brook each year, which is the largest thermal refuge for trout in the Beaver Kill.
The volunteer planting day will be Sunday, October 11th beginning at 10 am. For all the groups that have generously lended financial support to make this project happen, this is a chance for you and your members to participate in the planting over 600 trees and hundreds of willow stakes along the stream and 2.5 acres that will become a streamside forest. Everyone can then enjoy fishing the Beaver Kill in the afternoon.
Directions: Route 17 to the Horton Exit 7 miles west of Roscoe. Turn onto Old 17 and take toward the trestle bridge spanning the Beaver Kill. Turn onto Horton Brook Road and drive upstream along Horton Brook for 1 mile. The project site and the stream will be on your left - it's a large open area and you can't miss it.
We will have some equipment, but these are items to bring if you have them:
- Work Gloves
- Shovel
- Wheel barrow
- Loppers for cutting willow stakes.
Attached are some pictures that show the project site in 2008 before the project, and last week after the floodplain was reconstructed and the banks graded bank to a stable angle.
Thank you again for all the support, and hope to see you Sunday, October 11th.
I am very pleased to announce to you that the Horton Brook Floodplain Restoration and Bank Stabilization Project on New York City DEP land at their aqueduct air shaft property is nearing completion.
Next week the project team will finish hydroseeding the site and replacing topsoil. Over the past five weeks, NYC DEP operations staff moved 16,000 cubic yards of tunnel muck material away from Horton Brook and recreated 300 foot long floodplain and regraded the eroding back from the stream edge. NYC DEP volunteered tens of thousands of dollars in operator time and equipment and remained committed to this project over a number of years. The Town of Colchester donated the use of 2 dump trucks for over a month. A substantial grant from the Trout & Salmon Foundation to the Beamoc Chapter, Trout Unlimited chapters from NY and NJ, the NY State Council, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and Millennium Pipeline donated thousands of dollars to help cover costs of an excavator rental, stormwater protection material, grass seed, trees, tree guards, and compost. Greene County Soil & Water Conservation District has donated the hydroseeder, mulch and staff time. After over 8 years of planning and persistence, we will complete this project with the tree planting this fall, and reduce flood damage and bank erosion into Horton Brook, one of the key spawning tributaries in all of the Beaver Kill. This project will also help reduce erosion that contributes to the formation of the large gravel bar at the mouth of Horton Brook each year, which is the largest thermal refuge for trout in the Beaver Kill.
The volunteer planting day will be Sunday, October 11th beginning at 10 am. For all the groups that have generously lended financial support to make this project happen, this is a chance for you and your members to participate in the planting over 600 trees and hundreds of willow stakes along the stream and 2.5 acres that will become a streamside forest. Everyone can then enjoy fishing the Beaver Kill in the afternoon.
Directions: Route 17 to the Horton Exit 7 miles west of Roscoe. Turn onto Old 17 and take toward the trestle bridge spanning the Beaver Kill. Turn onto Horton Brook Road and drive upstream along Horton Brook for 1 mile. The project site and the stream will be on your left - it's a large open area and you can't miss it.
We will have some equipment, but these are items to bring if you have them:
- Work Gloves
- Shovel
- Wheel barrow
- Loppers for cutting willow stakes.
Attached are some pictures that show the project site in 2008 before the project, and last week after the floodplain was reconstructed and the banks graded bank to a stable angle.
Thank you again for all the support, and hope to see you Sunday, October 11th.
Nathaniel Gillespie
Fisheries Scientist & Director of Eastern Lands Protection Project
Trout Unlimited
1300 N. 17th Street, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22209
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