Mianus River Restoration Tour

Join us on a walking tour of our completed habitat restoration project on the Mianus River!

 

This project was designed to improve fish and wildlife habitat at the Mianus River Park. Due to excessive erosion and upstream dams, much of the existing habitat for fish in the Mianus River had severely degraded over the years. As a river erodes, it becomes much wider, shallower, and heats up faster during periods of drought. 

 

This project added sixteen deep pool and riffle structures to provide much needed cold water refuge habitat for trout. These structures help increase the velocity of the water, take pressure off the streambanks, and provide places for fish to go when water temperatures start to climb in the summer. We added hundreds of large boulders and woody structures to provide cover and habitat for all kinds of aquatic critters and animals. 

 

This type of restoration work also helps to improve water quality as well. Colder, oxygenated water decrease bacterial counts and limits algae blooms downriver. Because the Mianus River is an important drinking water supply, this project also helps provide cleaner, safer drinking water as well as a healthier Long Island Sound.

 

The work doesn't stop here - join us to learn more about our plan to remove deadbeat dams and restore even more habitat in order to transform the Mianus River into a premier wild-native trout stream.

 

Meet us at the Red Barn off Merriebrook Lane and we'll hit the river from there!