Patchogue Bay
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Patchogue Bay is a lagoon[1] on the south-central shores of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
Part of the
Ownership
Grant
The Patchogue Bay, bay bottom up to the barrier beach, is owned by Brookhaven town because of a grant from the King of Britain long before the existence of the US. It has been repeatedly adjudicated that the grant in the Dongan patent (Brookhaven Town, 1686) is valid.[citation needed]
Federal government claim
However, since 1968, the Federal Government has been attempting to take title of and claim, by adverse possession, of the bay bottom of both Islip and Brookhaven Towns, extending outward from the barrier beach.[citation needed] It (the Federal Government) has repeated published intentionally erroneous maps (as the one below) showing boundaries of the Fire Island Seashore extending out into the bay when the real boundary is the shoreline of the barrier beach. [citation needed]
Habitat
A number of habitats make up the bay bottom; the dominant
Other common aquatic species occurring in the backbarrier lagoon systems of Long Island include blue mussel, bay scallop, eastern oyster, horseshoe crab, American eel, spot, Atlantic croaker, northern kingfish, and northern puffer. There are a number of significant trout resources in streams that drain into The Bay. Nine of the twelve verified wild brook trout
Today, hard clams are the bay's principal resource, but this was not always the case. The once well-known eastern oyster fishery collapsed in the 1940s and 1950s; that collapse was linked to algal blooms of a minute species that inhibited shellfish growth. These blooms were believed to be the result of high inputs of organic wastes, primarily from large-scale duck farms located on tributaries of the bay. A similar problem exists today in lawn fertilizer run off and is directly responsible for brown tide algae bloom and thus indirectly responsible for the collapse of the bay scallop population. During 1999 there was a significant spring drought, which may be verified through the Brookhaven National Laboratory meteorological records.[2] That summer the bay was the cleanest it had been in living memory; one could see clean sand bottom through 5 to 6 feet of water at the edge of the flats. Local baymen and sailors aged 50 and older remarked that they had never seen the bay so clean. There was no "brown tide" algae bloom that year.
Fire Island access and Patchogue bays and bridges
- Davis Park
- Watch Hill
- Fire Island National Seashore
- The Great South Bay
- Moriches Bay
- Swan River New York Google maps
- Pine Neck – (Boat launch)
- Patchogue River www.lat-long.com
- Sandspit Park Beach & Marina
- Shorefront Park – Patchogue (Bandshell)
- Mascot Dock & Marina
- South Shore Estuary
- Fire Island Wilderness
- Fire Island Inlet Bridge
- Great South Bay Bridge
- Outer Barrier Islands
Photo gallery
See also
- Brookhaven
- Suffolk
Notes
The original 17th Century Crown Patents, including the Nicolls, Dongan and Fletcher patents, gave certain Long Island townships title to the land within their bounds including the land under water (see O'Brien v Town of Huntington, 66 AD3d 160, 164 [2d Dept 2009]; Melby v Duffy, 304 AD3d 33 [2d Dept 2003]; Nance v Town of Oyster Bay, 23 AD2d 9 [2d Dept 1965]). The townships' ownership and control over these lands and water antedates the State and the Union itself and has been repeatedly upheld (see e.g. Lowndes v Huntington, 153 US 1; Trustees of Brookhaven v Strong, 60 NY 56; Rottenberg v Edwards, 103 AD2d 138 [2d Dept 1984]).
References
- ^ S. Goodbred, Jr; P. Locicero; V. B onvento; S. Kolbe; S. Holsinger. "History of the Great South Bay estuary: Evidence for a catastrophic origin" (PDF). SUNY.com. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
- ^ "Monthly Precipitation Records". Bn1.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-13.