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Posted By: Kenneth E. Lamb
Tuesday March 16th, 2010 - 5:59AM
The future for Florida's barrier islands? New York's Hamptons dunes washed out this weekend, and can't be restored.
Written by Jennifer Mclogan - Courtesy of: wcbstv.com
VIDEO LINK: The people at WCBS in NYC are too dumb to put up an embed code, but here is a link to their page if you want to see the story:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/station/as-seen-on/Long_Island_Beaches_Battered_in_Rainstorm_New_York.html
ARTICLE: Property owners banded together Monday to try to save their properties ravaged by the most extensive coasting flooding since the "perfect storm" of 1991. But they must act quickly. Just two weeks remain until endangered piping plovers have exclusive rights to the beach for their breeding season.
"A plover would get washed away right now. But still the ban is in affect. After March 30 you can't do it; you can't restore the dune," Dobringer said.
That has many here frustrated. The deadline is looming to restore the dunes, but it is costly. Suffolk County said the Hamptons may have suffered at least $30 million in property damage.
