A Unique Way To Fight Beach Erosion

Groins, rip rap (boulders) and conventional ways to fight beach erosion have been demonstrated to be ineffective, generally just robbing Peter to pay Paul.  Now a Danish company is demonstrating a system of buried tubes called Pressure Equalizing Modules (PEM) and is hoping to demonstrate at Hillsboro Beach, Florida, that their system dramatically slows the amount [...]

Dredging Wickham Creek

This letter was received from David Allison  Note that SoutholdVOICE has taken no position on the issue that he raises, nor does Trustee Dave Bergen speak on our behalf.  Our role is educational and in that spirit, Mr. Allison’s letter is published. Ladies and Gentlemen On Friday night I caught a brief portion of a [...]

Slow Going on Wetlands

Copyright 2007 Times/Review Newspapers Corp. Reprinted with permission Changes to Chapter 275 are examined closely at meeting By Julie Lane Southold Town Board members are prepared to approve changes to Chapter 275 of the wetlands code when they meet Tuesday, but with the caveat that trustees continue to hammer away at the more substantive changes [...]

Autumn on the North Fork

Photo supplied by Steven Bellavia, SoutholdVOICE member

Why Fight Each Other?

The October 4th issue of the Suffolk Times features a Letter to the Editor from SoutholdVOICE’s John Edler, co-chairman of our Trustee Liaison Committee. Your headline “LWRP vs trustees” (front page, Sept. 27) reminded me of a story. In a country that allowed cockfighting there was a man who never won, so he decided to [...]

Dredging Starts Monday

SoutholdVOICE is happy to confirm that dredging is about to start on schedule on October first. They will be starting in Budds Pond on Monday. Budds Pond had permits already in place so it was not on the new list of required permits. It was already on the Town and County list. As it is [...]

President’s Report

President’s Report – Planning and Progress update August 21, 2007 At the July meeting I suggested we have a party at the end of the summer to get together and celebrate our success. While discussing this at our last board meeting, the board wisely advised that it is inappropriate to spend funds we have not [...]

President’s Report

President’s Report – Planning and Progress update August 21, 2007 At the July meeting I suggested we have a party at the end of the summer to get together and celebrate our success. While discussing this at our last board meeting, the board wisely advised that it is inappropriate to spend funds we have not [...]

Dredging Progress Despite Bureaucratic Snarls

It appears that about 15 projects will be able to be completed in the approaching dredging season – Oct. 1 to Jan. 15 – but not the 20 to 25 the county used to do annually. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended in April that the county submit one application for all the projects [...]

Proposed amendments to the Local Law CH. 275

This link will take you to the full text of the proposed amendment(s) to Chapter 275, the restrictions on construction along Southold’s waterfront. A public hearing is to be scheduled and when the date/time is known it will be posted here. Readers of this website and particularly waterfront property owners whose ability to construct and [...]

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