This month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a revised flood-control plan to defend eastern Long Island’s southern coast from devastating storms.
The Fire Island to Montauk plan calls for elevating homes, replenishing dunes, restoring marshes, and dredging the Fire Island, Moriches and Shinnecock inlets.
The plan calls for elevating 24 hundred houses, and relocating basement utilities in others. Some houses would be rebuilt, and flood barriers would be erected around others.
Six miles of roads would be turned into dikes, shielding more than 1,000 homes from floodwaters.
But some observers say the plan fails to take sea level rise into account.
We speak to Kevin McAllister of Defend H2O, a non-profit concerned with coastal zone management and water quality.
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Hearings on the Fire Island - Montauk Plan will be conducted in September. We will update this page when a schedule is published.
More information about the plan will be available here and at
DefendH2O.org
