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'Living Shoreline' To Counter Erosion At Indian Island County Park

Courtesy of Suffolk County Parks Department

Barriers and vegetation will be used to create a so-called “living shoreline” for Riverhead’s Indian Island County Park to solve the park’s erosion problems.

Damage to the park’s bluff over the years has affected a nearby American Indian burial ground. In 2003 a storm exposed skeletal remains and artifacts. 

The $1.2 million project was approved by the Suffolk County Legislature and will restore the bluff.

The new shoreline will also protect the burial ground and prevent erosion.