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Age: 54
Hometown: East Quogue
Occupation: retired from FDNY Fire Patrol
Political experience: Southampton Town Conservation Board, Southampton Town Planning Board, current Town Trustee
1. Do you think stormwater runoff is a problem the Trustees should be involved in trying to fix? Why or how?
We have to stop the heavy metals and toxins from getting into the bay. We’re encouraging people to plant buffers. Anytime a bulkhead comes in for replacement we don’t allow any fertilized vegetation. We’ve been encouraging people, I don’t know if we can start taking them to court, but we’re whittling away at it slowly with low-sil bulkheads and the planting of native vegetation.
2. Do you think the Trustees can or should be doing more to help the local commercial fishing industry? Why?
We just got done re-doing all the bulkheads at the Trustee basin. There’s two commercial draggers there. We’re encouraging the aquaculture program so that it’s workable for everyone. We’re putting out breeder sanctuaries to increase the number of clams in the bay—we just did a transplant from the Peconic River. And we’ve worked with the Army Corps to finalize plans for dredging of the inlet.
3. How should the Trustees be involved in improving water quality in the town’s freshwater ponds?
In Agawam we have a project to put in a rain garden. Planting vegetation to intercept runoff. Working with Dr. Chris Gobler of Stony Brook Southampton’s marine science program on a study of Mill Pond and I’ve been working on Wildwood Lake. Put some new algae eaters species in Silverbrook Pond in Flanders to improve the water quality.
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Questions
1. How do you go from stormwater runoff to bulkheads & wether or not fertilized vegetation is planted the is not the problem. Start getting storm drains on the Trustee roads throughout the Town for starters. "I don't know if we can start taking them to court" that seems to be his solution to everything sue,sue,sue & why not it doesn't cost him it is all of us who pick up the tab for his litigation fetish!
2. Hope some native grasses were planted to aide in filtering the stormwater from the parking area at the Trustee marina. If not why?
3. How about being pro-active about the water quality, not reacting to massive fish kills, because you haven't properly addressed the stormwater issues in the Town. Mill Pond receives a massive dose of pollutants & fertilizers from the lack of drainage on Deerfield road, anyone traveling the road during a good heavy rain can see the water pouring off the farmland on to the road then running downhill to Mill pond, you don't need a doctorate to figure this out! With the increased traffic in that area, as well as the addition of the stop signs there are more petrochemicals, brake dust ect... making it to the road to be washed down to Mill pond. Studying it is great for generating grant money but how about fixing the drainage issue!
Total comments by INS: 524
Total comments by goldenrod: 57
Total comments by fix-it-now: 168
He is more interested in power than discharging his responsibities as a Trustee.
And then there's the Dockers application and the Westhampton Cemetery matter. It's disgraceful.
Total comments by Frank Wheeler: 506
Total comments by goldenrod: 57
Frank is right about the bait & switch he pulled on the Westhampton Cemetery issue that was deplorable. He can't be Trusted!!! How can he be a Trustee?
Just look at his face in the picture he is smirking, very unbecoming!!!!
Total comments by INS: 524
Oh, and experience? Ed Warner has relevant experience. So did his father, Bill Bennett and Scott Strough.
So too do Bill Pell and Chris Garvey, both of whom would restore some lost confidence to the Board of Trustees.
Total comments by Frank Wheeler: 506
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