NEW YORK: In city waters, beds (and a job) for oysters - (The New York Times)
February 25, 2008 – 8:19 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/24oysters.html?ref=nyregion
Hendrix Creek, flowing for just over a mile in Brooklyn through East New York, passes under the Belt Parkway and, according to this story, between two dormant landfills before it empties into Jamaica Bay. The creek, once fed by a natural stream, now starts at the output pipe of a wastewater treatment plant.
It is the perfect kind of place, said John K. McLaughlin, an ecologist for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, for an experimental project that would establish oyster beds, not for harvest, but as living water filters.
Natural oyster beds once stretched for 350 square miles in New Yorks waterways. Over time, overharvesting and pollution took their toll. Sewage first forced the bays shellfish beds to close in the mid-19th century, with all harvests outlawed in the 1920s.
The city plans to plant oysters near the creeks mouth, where they will absorb nitrogen, a byproduct of human waste. […]
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