From left: Peconic Baykeeper, Kevin McAllister, State Department of Enviornmental Conservation, Charles deQuilldelft, Group for the East End President, Robert DeLuca and Town of Southampton Conservation and Resource Protection, Marty Shea.
After recently securing a $100,000 state grant, Southampton Town now has the funds to resurrect a more than decade-old waterfront revitalization project, according to Marty Shea, the chief environmental analyst for Southampton Town.
The ambitious project, which is expected to take at least three years to complete, seeks to reduce the amount of storm water runoff reaching local bays, amend the town code to limit future development along the water, and require that homes overlooking bays and creeks keep larger natural buffers. Those suggestions were reached under the town’s original Waterfront Revitalization Study, which was completed in 1994, though many have not yet been instituted because of budgetary constraints.
At the Hampton Bays Civic Association’s educational forum on Monday evening, titled “Crisis in Our Bays,” Mr. Shea said that with the grant... more
The ambitious project, which is expected to take at least three years to complete, seeks to reduce the amount of storm water runoff reaching local bays, amend the town code to limit future development along the water, and require that homes overlooking bays and creeks keep larger natural buffers. Those suggestions were reached under the town’s original Waterfront Revitalization Study, which was completed in 1994, though many have not yet been instituted because of budgetary constraints.
At the Hampton Bays Civic Association’s educational forum on Monday evening, titled “Crisis in Our Bays,” Mr. Shea said that with the grant... more
This "ambitious" project, anticipated for the last FIFTEEN years, better have capital accounts already in place, or it is a pipe dream IMO. [no pun intended !!!]
No more deficits, please!
FYI:
Cannot remember how many years this all started....maybe ten. I had called Town Trustees and told them the Town Dock at Wooley Pond was falling apart.
There were holes along the bulked that people could fall into. The soil was going under the bulkhead and shoaling along the dock. Scott Strough and Mr. Warner (the older gent.) came and agreed that it needed replacement. But...nothing was ever done. Yet they then dumped a ton of ...more money into Conscience Point. Then the Storm Abatement Project began adjacent to the dock. That project was never seen to completion. They were supposed to pave the parking area. ( Where did that money get lost?) When I asked Storm Abatement why the parking lot did not get paved, I was told that it was because the bulkhead was going to get replaced. I then called Jon Semlear. He told me: " The funds were in place...waiting on the permits." That was about four years ago. (Where did that money get lost?) Still that dock is in sad shape.
Hope someone keeps track of this $100,000.