It is the intent of the Town Board of the Town of Smithtown to create a Department of Environment and Waterways to further the following purposes and objectives:
A.
To assure for all the people of the Town of Smithtown safe, healthful, productive and aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.
B.
To attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety or other undesirable consequences.
C.
To preserve important historic, cultural and natural aspects of our heritage and maintain an environment which supports diversity and variety of individual choices.
D.
To achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit high standards of living and a wide sharing of life amenities among all the residents of the Town of Smithtown, not only during this generation but in each succeeding generation.
E.
To protect the people of the Town of Smithtown against such activities as would tend to impair, damage, destroy or otherwise infringe upon the natural resources of the Town of Smithtown.
F.
To manage all uses of the wetlands, waterways and shellfish resources of the Town of Smithtown so as to maintain and, wherever possible, improve the long-term ecological health and environmental quality of these resources for the benefit and enjoyment of all the residents of the Town of Smithtown, not only during this generation but in each succeeding generation.
G.
To administer and ensure the wise, safe and efficient use of the wetlands, waterways and related facilities of the Town of Smithtown for boating, shellfishing and all other appropriate recreational, educational and commercial pursuits.