After Monday’s nor’easter, it looked as though the sea had swallowed some area beaches whole. But when warm weather returns, the shifting sands should return too, as they annually do.
But along some parts of East Hampton’s 60-mile coastline, erosion threatens to make the beach vanish permanently.
The beach east of Culloden Point in Montauk is retreating as fast as 3.8 feet a year, according to research compiled and analyzed since 1995 by Larry Penny and Mark Abramson, of the East Hampton Town Natural Resources Department, and William Walsh, a land surveyor in Montauk.
The team also found that some ocean bluffs between downtown Montauk and Montauk Point are retreating at a rate of 2 to 4 feet a year and, in a few spots, as much as 5 feet a year.
Their findings... more
But along some parts of East Hampton’s 60-mile coastline, erosion threatens to make the beach vanish permanently.
The beach east of Culloden Point in Montauk is retreating as fast as 3.8 feet a year, according to research compiled and analyzed since 1995 by Larry Penny and Mark Abramson, of the East Hampton Town Natural Resources Department, and William Walsh, a land surveyor in Montauk.
The team also found that some ocean bluffs between downtown Montauk and Montauk Point are retreating at a rate of 2 to 4 feet a year and, in a few spots, as much as 5 feet a year.
Their findings... more
