Aground at the Entrance to Deep Hole Creek

Steven Bellavia writes: I live on Deep Hole Creek in Mattituck. I would like to volunteer whatever time and services I could to help promote and protect our water and adjacent properties. Deep Hole Creek, like others, needs dredging. I was hard aground sitting directly between the red and green buoy at the creek entrance [...]

Army Corps Response to Congressional Letter

David Bergen, Southold Town Trustee, writes: The Army Corp responded last week in writing to the [congressional] letter. They included two items in their response. First, they provided a response to US Fish and Wildlife to their required Endangered Species Habitat report. We now are waiting for a response from USF&W to this letter. Second, [...]

Pipe’s Creek Water Quality Improving

Letter from Bill and Chris Eisenreich, reprinted with kind permission: We are property owners on Pipe’s Creek, in Greenport, and belong to Peconic Bay Estates Homeowners’ Association. After reviewing some of the topics on the website, our concerns are: The complicated permit application for the Trustees. It was fairly straightforward for our initial building in [...]

Pipe’s Creek Water Quality Improving

Letter from Bill and Chris Eisenreich, reprinted with kind permission: We are property owners on Pipe’s Creek, in Greenport, and belong to Peconic Bay Estates Homeowners’ Association. After reviewing some of the topics on the website, our concerns are: The complicated permit application for the Trustees. It was fairly straightforward for our initial building in [...]

Boat/US Alert Regarding New Recreational Boating Rule

Boat/US, a national boating organization, has recently circulated the letter reproduced below concerning the inclusion of recreational boats in the Clean Water Act. If you are a boater, this can have an impact on the discharge of bilge water, engine cooling water, deck runoff etc.  Please take a moment to read the action Boat/US proposes to [...]

Where the Blue Meets the Green …

On July 21st, Southold VOICE hosted its second public meeting at Southold Recreation Center, Peconic, NY. John Kramer, Chairman SoutholdVOICE, opened the meeting, then turned the floor over to Southold Trustee Dave Bergen to report on his activities with respect to dredging.

Letter by Senators Schumer & Clinton and Rep Bishop to The Army Corps

This letter was prompted by Dave Bergen. Click here to download a copy of the letter (pdf format).

Dredging is not looking good next year either

At a recent breakfast meeting, when questioned about the snafu in getting the creeks dredged this year, Southold Supervisor Scott Russell said, “Things are not looking good for the next window of opportunity (September–February) for dredging either. The county is having a difficult time getting the necessary federal permits (DEC and the Army Corps of [...]

Choked Inlet Deprives Fish of Essential Oxygen

Letter to the Editor: “We live on Cedar Beach Road in Southold. We own waterfront property across the street from our home and maintain a dock for two of our neighbors and ourselves. The area is known as Dryad’s Basin and it is extremely difficult for us to get our boat out of this basin [...]

Southold Town Resolution on Dredging

Members of SoutholdVOICE should consider volunteering for this Committee ________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS there has occurred over the last year, confusion between government entities including the County of Suffolk, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the United States army Corp. of Engineers with respect to dredging applications for creeks within the Town of Southold, [...]

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