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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Embayment Conditions and Uses

• The South Shore Estuary Reserve

• Inlets, Barriers, and Coastal Processes

• Estuarine Embayments and Water Quality

• Navigation, Navigation Channels, and Dredging

• In-Water and Shoreline Structures

• Boating and Boating-Support Facilities

• Embayment Subareas

• Hempstead Bays Subarea

• South Oyster Bay/West Great South Bay Subarea

• Great South Bay Subarea

• Moriches Bay Subarea

• Shinnecock Bay Subarea

PART TWO: Summary of Management Issues and Considerations

• Estuary-Wide Issues and Considerations

• Public Health, Safety, and Welfare Issues and Considerations

• Environmental Quality and Resources Issues and Considerations

• Water Use and Access Issues and Considerations

• Dredging and Navigation Issues and Considerations

• Waterfront Development, Structures, and Land Use Issues and Considerations

• Institutional Framework Issues and Considerations

• Subarea Issues and Considerations

• Hempstead Bays

• South Oyster Bay/West Great South Bay

• Great South Bay

• Moriches Bay

• Shinnecock Bay

• Priority Embayment Use Issues

PART THREE: Findings and Recommendations

• Findings

• Recommendations

PART FOUR: Sources of Information

• Federal Government

• New York State

• Nassau County

• Suffolk County

• Town of Hempstead

• Town of Oyster Bay

• Town of Babylon

• Town of Islip

• Town of Brookhaven

• Town of Southampton

• Village of Freeport

• Village of Amityville

• Village of Patchogue

• Other Sources

PART FIVE: Glossary of Terms

Figure 1: Regional Location

Figure 2: South Shore Estuary Reserve Embayment Use Subareas

Figure 3: Hempstead Bays Subarea

Figure 4: South Oyster Bay/West Great South Bay Subarea

Figure 5: Great South Bay Subarea

Figure 6: Moriches Bay Subarea

Figure 7: Shinnecock Bay Subarea

Table 1: Embayment Subareas for Inventory and Analysis Purposes

Photo 1: East Rockaway Inlet; western end of Long Beach Island

Photo 2: Jones Inlet and the Jones Inlet Channel looking west

Photo 3: Fire Island Inlet from across Jones Island

Photo 4: Moriches Inlet; eastern end of Fire Island to left; western end of Westhampton, Beach Island to right.

Photo 5: Shinnecock Inlet; eastern end of Westhampton Beach Island to left; western end of Shinnecock barrier spit to right.

Photo 6: Looking west across Middle Bay; Meadowbrook State Parkway in the foreground; Loop Parkway to Pt. Lookout in center of photo.

Photo 7: Looking north along the Meadowbrook State Parkway toward the Village of Freeport; Loop Parkway crossing navigation channel in the foreground.

Photo 8: Looking west along the Reynolds Channel; Long Beach Island to left; Loop Parkway bridge in foreground.

Photo 9: Village of Freeport

Photo 10: Looking west toward West Great South Bay; Robert Moses Causeway in foreground.

Photo 11: Developed shoreline in the Town of Babylon.

Photo 12: Village of Babylon maritime center.

Photo 13: Looking west at the western end of Fire Island and Robert Moses State Park; Robert Moses Causeway crossing the Fire Island Inlet to the right.

Photo 14: Carmans River and wetland at Great South Bay

Photo 15: Great South Bay Channel from the Fire Island Inlet looking east; Fire Island to right

Photo 16: Bay Shore maritime center.

Photo 17: Sayville maritime center.

Photo 18: Village of Patchogue maritime center on the Patchogue River

Photo 19: Captree Boat Basin on the eastern end of Jones Island, looking west; State Boat Channel to right.

Photo 20: Narrow Bay, looking west along the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway toward Great South Bay; Fire Island to the left.

Photo 21: Moriches Bay looking east; Tuthill Point at lower left; flood tidal delta to right.

Photo 22: Eastern part of Moriches Bay; Westhampton Beach Island in foreground.

Photo 23: Looking east on Narrow Bay and the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Channel toward Moriches Bay; Smith Point bridge in foreground.

Photo 24: Looking east along the Quantuck Canal toward Quantuck Bay and Shinnecock Bay; Jessup Lane bridge in foreground.

Photo 25: Quogue Canal; Shinnecock Bay to right.

Photo 26: Western part of Shinnecock Bay; Ponquogue bridge in foreground.

Photo 27: Eastern Part of Shinnecock Bay; Shinnecock Canal in left foreground.

Photo 28: Shinnecock Canal maritime center (crossed by Sunrise Highway) looking east; Great Peconic Bay to left and Shinnecock Bay to right.

Photo 29: Commercial fishing center at the Shinnecock Inlet.