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The Long Island Sound and Watershed Metadata map application

Year: 2025
Type: report
Abstract: The Long Island Sound WatershedThe Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary in the northeastern United States.It has an area of 1,194 square miles, drains about 17,000 square miles, ranges from freshwater to saltwater, and encompasses almost 600 miles of shoreline (Long Island Sound Study, 2024).Several major rivers contribute to the sound, including the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames Rivers.These rivers and their tributaries make up most of the Long Island Sound watershed, or the area of land from which water drains into the sound.The watershed spans parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States and Quebec in Canada that are populated by nearly 9 million people (Long Island Sound Study, 2024;Parker, 2024).Land use in the Long Island Sound watershed includes urban areas along the Connecticut River and the coast of the Long Island Sound and mostly forested and agricultural areas in western Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont (fig.1).Land use can greatly affect the quality and quantity of stormwater runoff, groundwater recharge, flooding, and overall ecosystem health, making it an important factor within the watershed.Past and current studies of the Long Island Sound and its watershed by Federal, State, Tribal Nation, academic, and community organizations include topics such as water quality, nutrient loading, fisheries, flora and fauna, groundwater supply and quantity, spatial coverages and land use, infrastructure, climate change, sediment and geology, flooding, forestry, and energy (Latimer and others, 2014).The goal of these efforts is to provide up-to-date science relevant to the Long Island Sound and its watershed.
Source: Fact sheet
DOI: 10.3133/fs20253019
Language: English
Subfield: Geology
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410426910
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