Feb 14, 2012 1:31 PM
East Hampton Highway Superintendent Steve Lynch BOB SCHAEFFER
Potholes, patching, pruning, paving, asphalt, snow, signs, road kill, litter, lining, mowing, catch basins, dry wells, drainage, sweeping, carting, curbing, even leaves. All these terms roll easily off the tongue of Steve Lynch, East Hampton Town’s recently elected superintendent of highways. They are among his 30-member department’s many responsibilities in maintaining the town’s 300 miles of road, stretching from the easternmost point of Montauk to Town Line Road in Wainscott. New York State and Suffolk County roads, which cover considerable territory, are not included in that mileage count.
Wainscott, arguably the town’s smallest populated community, contains a fair share of Steve’s highway system. In a two-hour, north-and-south-of-the-highway tour of our hamlet with the superintendent last week, I learned a lot about road maintenance, about his preparedness for the taxing job, about... more
Wainscott, arguably the town’s smallest populated community, contains a fair share of Steve’s highway system. In a two-hour, north-and-south-of-the-highway tour of our hamlet with the superintendent last week, I learned a lot about road maintenance, about his preparedness for the taxing job, about... more
