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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.
Wilko Martínez-Cachero 