Meetings set for beach hurricane protection plan for Long Island
Posted by
Fred on 9/23/2010, 3:00 pm
In what could be the beginning of the end of a decades-long study, the Army Corps of Engineers will hold three hearings starting Thursday on a plan to protect Long Island's ocean beaches from hurricanes and erosion.
The long-awaited Fire Island to Montauk Reformulation Plan aims to serve as a map on how to protect the shore from hurricanes and uplands from flooding if a storm breaks through a barrier beach. It covers 83 miles of beaches and uplands, and about $20 million has been spent on developing, rewriting and updating the study since it was first authorized in 1980.
Officials are seeking comments on the latest version of the complex plan, which will be reviewed before a final version of the plan is made.
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Ideas have included putting up 50 massive stone jetties in the most threatened area; pumping sand back onto beaches; and buying houses and removing them or letting erosion destroy them.
No one solution is expected to work for the entire stretch of oceanfront.
Thursday night's meeting will be at the Fire Island National Seashore headquarters at the Patchogue ferry terminal at 150 West Ave. On Sept. 28, the meeting will be in Chancellor's Hall on the Southampton College campus. And on Sept. 29, the last hearing will be at the Montauk Fire House at 12 Flamingo Ave.
All the hearings will run from 4 to 8 p.m
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Meetings set for beach hurricane protection plan for Long Island - Fred, 9/23/2010, 3:00 pm
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