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74th Year, No. 50 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, December 17, 2009 759
TREE LIGHTING: Hempstead Town Clerk Mark Bonilla attended the Village of Freeport Annual Tree Lighting on Saturday at the Freeport Recreation Center. Just prior to the tree lighting, Santa arrived at the recreation center by fire
truck-to a-throng of awaiting children. Later in the evening the Holiday Ice show was perfornned by the Freeport Skating Academy Everyone had the opportunity to hear holiday music performed by the Freeport Public Schools.
Town dredges up soluiion fer beach erosion
by Douglas Finlay
The Town of Hempstead is blowing sand in the face of beach erosion by purchasing a dredge machine that will create new sand dunes and save communities within the town from flooding from nor'casters that barrel up the coast during the year - floods that are already breaching a series of dredging projects undertaken by the federal government just two years ago.
The dredger, now being assembled at the town's Hanse Avenue facility-in Freeport, will be available to begin dredging by the spring.
Hempstead. Town Supervisor Kate Murray told those assembled at the dock last week that purchase of the dredg'er was a
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serious attempt to develop a plan to tackle beach erosion that continues to plague the Point Lookout community and other communities that border the shoreline.
"We need to pump sand on to local beaches to protect communities from flooding against rior'easters" that ravage the coastline, she remarked of the reason for the purchase.
"With this dredger, the town will be able to address niore quickly and within our own timeline any breaches or damage caused by storms."
She noted that the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Jones Beach Inlet in 2008 by transporting sand from the bottom of the inlet onto Point Lookout beaches. Point Lookout has lost 250,000 cubic yards "
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of protective sand from nor'easters. Dredging created new sand dunes to protect the community.
"But water has breached those dunes again," she continued, and the shoreline has' lost 50-75 feet of sand since the 2008 dredging.
TTie 45-foot long dredge, made by the ,Ellicott company of Baltimore and using no ftiel, ballast or hydraiiUc oil in its operation, costs $1.14 million. It was paid for in large measure by a state grant of $1.1 million from both state Senator Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) and state Assemblyman Harvey-Weisenberg (D-Lorig Beach), with the town kicking in the additional $41,000.
"The funds were available from a capital bond of a few years ago," Senator
Skelos told The Leader. The new dredger, he said, would provide protection for homes and businesses that lie along the shorelines biscause the town will now be able to react quickly to any damages from breaching by creating new protective dunes in a matter of days.
Ms. Murray said that with ownership of its own dredger, the town wouldn't be beholden to other agencies, or have to compete for - and wait up to six months or more for - a dredger in the event of a serious breach from a major storm.
She said 'that once operational, among the first chores of the dredger will be to .dredge sand from the northeast side of the beach along the inlet (continued on page 15)
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-12-17 |
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| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
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| Date | 2009 |
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