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East Hampton Town residents and business owners filled the Montauk Firehouse meeting room to standing-room-only capacity on Tuesday morning to sound off to the Town Board about how to best address the serious erosion and flooding Hurricane Sandy left in its wake.
The issue boiled down to whether hard structures should be allowed on the beach—a topic that proved to be a sensitive subject among speakers, especially to Steve Kalimnios, an owner of the company that manages the Royal Atlantic Beach Resort Motel in Montauk, who recently had contractors drop cesspool rings in front of his building to prevent further erosion that could have caused it to fall into the ocean.
Meanwhile, environmental advocates who oppose such structures say that the shoreline hardening only leads to more erosion to neighboring properties, and... more
The issue boiled down to whether hard structures should be allowed on the beach—a topic that proved to be a sensitive subject among speakers, especially to Steve Kalimnios, an owner of the company that manages the Royal Atlantic Beach Resort Motel in Montauk, who recently had contractors drop cesspool rings in front of his building to prevent further erosion that could have caused it to fall into the ocean.
Meanwhile, environmental advocates who oppose such structures say that the shoreline hardening only leads to more erosion to neighboring properties, and... more
The shoreline doesn't get harder than what's down at the Battery and it did nothing to prevent a flood of historic proportions.
George Washington fully understand coastal geology and basic oceanography when he ordered the Montauk Lighthouse ...more to be built so far from the water knowing that erosion would claim the land. Which reminds me, exactly how much beach is present at low tide in front of the rocks @ Montauk Point? The answer is 0.
People, we live on a sandbar - the ocean will claim it and there's nothing we can do but build smarter - not harder.
What's that word defined by someone repeating the same actions, and expecting different results?
In-Sand-ity!
Do you know how to prevent a home from flooding? Put it in pilings, no need for a bulkhead....