As part of New York City's effort to improve the water quality of Coney Island Creek, the Department of Environmental Protection is rehabilitating and upgrading a pumping station and installing two new force mains. The force mains will run nearly four miles, snaking through city streets and along the Belt Parkway, following the shore of New York Harbor up to the base of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

Dirtworks joined a team of environmental and engineering consultants, and coordinated the work of a certified arborist to ensure that the construction to improve water quality did not denigrate the quality of the parkland. Dirtworks produced a tree survey for the one thousand trees potentially affected by the work. The survey catalogued each tree, included a determination regarding each tree's disposition during and after construction, and instructions to the contractor for the proper treatment in preparation for and during construction.

Dirtworks studied the existing vegetation and is developing landscape plans to restore the waterfront park setting. These tasks include examination of specific zones of character, study of the relationship of vegetation to the neighborhoods and the views of the bay from various types of housing and the parkland itself, and creation of plant lists specific to the localized conditions along the 4-mile route.