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The dredging of Moriches Bay, part of a $6 million effort to repair a 1,000-foot-wide breach in the barrier island that opened up at Cupsogue Beach County Park during Superstorm Sandy late last month, got under way late last week.
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, at a press conference held at the park located on the western end of Dune Road on Friday, November 16, and attended by a host of state and local officials, said federal funds would cover 65 percent of the cost of the project, with most of the remaining amount to be paid by the state and a smaller portion by Suffolk County. The project was expedited by the DEC’s Breach Contingency Plan that was developed in the early 1990s after a breach destroyed... more
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, at a press conference held at the park located on the western end of Dune Road on Friday, November 16, and attended by a host of state and local officials, said federal funds would cover 65 percent of the cost of the project, with most of the remaining amount to be paid by the state and a smaller portion by Suffolk County. The project was expedited by the DEC’s Breach Contingency Plan that was developed in the early 1990s after a breach destroyed... more
"If left alone, water coming through the breach would raise the bay levels, making the bordering communities more prone to flooding."
Please show me the science behind this. Has the level of the bay risen any measurable amount since the breach? Have any homes been regularly flooded on high tide (or heck, even during the recent spring tide) that normally don't?
I wish they would leave it open ...more - but obviously that won't happen. I guess ATH doesn't understand that messing with nature is what gets us in these predicements in the first place.
Such impatience is expensive, and immature IMO.
The benefit of dredging the existing inlet saves this plan from the label of "sheer folly."
I guess some deep pockets whispered in someone's ears, after all the Town election is this coming Fall.
continue come into the bay?
This is dumb. it's not as if you are connecting houses or repairing roads. You are essentially reconnecting spits of sand. The 'science' behind this beguiles me. I would think circulating the water in to the bay is 'good" and what sea life would be 'affected'? It's not like a Russian tanker dropped zebra mussels in the Great Lakes. Whatever is there certainly could swim around the inlet before this happened.
The County loves to act as though the beach is in Southampton because it makes it "sexy". Who wants to go to a beach in Brookhaven Town when they can go to a beach in "Westhampton".
Regardless, it's a COUNTY owned beach, so the Town (brookhaven or Southampton) shouldn't ...more be involved at all. But alas, any chance for a photo-op is a good chance!
Rumors are that Janet Yellen may replace Bernanke as Fed Chair, and that she favors MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING.
Merrily we roll along, further into debt we go!
Folks, this growing indebtedness and deficit spending is probably not going to end as a pretty picture!