The Chemung County Stream Program was developed through the cooperative efforts of the Chemung County Legislature, the Chemung County Soil and Water Conservation District and various local municipalities within the County. The program was initiated in response to severe storms and flooding in the mid-nineties that created a crisis for many of the county’s landowners. The purpose of the stream program is to provide cost share funds and technical assistance for stream restoration and streambank protection projects with the ultimate goal of protecting water quality and reducing future losses of public and private property from streambank erosion and flooding.

We work on a shared services basis with our Villages, Town and County to implement stream stabilization to protect our millions of dollars in failing infrastructure and at the same time reduce the amount of sediment and nutrients entering our waterbodies. Projects are done annually, and we utilize a combination of practices from rock weirs, rock veins, j-hooks, stacked rock walls, sloped rock walls, root wads, riparian buffer establishment etc.