Without public access to Wainscott Pond, as the owners of the pond, the East Hampton Town Trustees have been unable to monitor the water quality in Wainscott Pond which is besieged annually by blue green algae bloom during the summer months. With warmer temperatures, blue green algae is expected, however, leaving Wainscott Pond without maintenance such as dredging, the water conditions may become become toxic – harmful or dangerous to humans and pets or wildlife. Wainscott Pond Aerial Andy Drake Published June 9th, 2024- Wainscott Pond: Season’s First Blue-Green Algae Bloom For several years, the Trustees have worked with Dr.
The 33rd Annual East Hampton Town Trustees “Largest Clam Contest” was a huge success! Held for the first time at the Amagansett Life-Saving Station on Atlantic Avenue, the gray skies did not put a damper on the Trustee’s popular event! Your East Hampton Town Trustees: The Clerk- Francis Bock, Deputy Clerks- Bill Taylor and Jim Grimes, Trustees John Aldred, Tim Garneau, Ben Dollinger, David Cataletto (also a Trustee with the Amagansett Life-Saving Station), Patrice Dalton, and Celia Josephson. Photo Gallery: Courtesy of The East Hampton Star & The East Hampton Town Trustees 33rd Annual Largest Clam Contest poster Clam Chowder
Scallops Photo by Jon M. Diat EH Star Draft legislation that would move the start of the scallop season here from the third Monday in October to the Sunday after the first Monday in November was floated by Nicholas Coritsidis, an assistant town attorney, at last week’s town board work session. It would take effect in both East Hampton Town and town trustee waters. east hampton star A public hearing was held yesterday, September 26th, at Town Hall. The final resolution for the delay of the opening of scallop season in Trustee waters begins November 10, 2024.
The East Hampton Town Trustees 33rd Annual Largest Clam Contest is scheduled for Sunday, September 29th from 12:00 Noon – 3:00PM. A fun community event, we hope you’ll join us at the AMAGANSETT LIFE SAVING STATION located at 160 Atlantic Avenue! Contest Rules
Photos by Kyril Bromley The Trustees have approved a proposal from Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program mitigate and reduce nitrogen in Hog Creek. The second of three phases of a project to identify and remediate nitrogen-rich groundwater intrusion in Hog Creek in Springs was detailed to the East Hampton Town Trustees this month, in a presentation that included evidence that water quality may be improving there. The Trustees, who have jurisdiction over many of the town’s waterways, bottomlands and beaches, permitted an evaluation of nitrogen entering the creek, John Aldred of the Trustees told his colleagues on August 12. Click
Northwest Harbor 8/27/24 Photo Susan McGraw-Keber Shellfish Dealers and Shellfish Harvesters, DEC-Shellfisheries collected water samples in several of the areas that DEC designated as temporarily uncertified (closed) on August 19, 2024, after the extraordinary rainfall event in excess of three (3) inches in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on August 18 – 19, 2024. Testing results from those samples indicated that the following areas can be re-opened to the harvest of shellfish. Effective at 10:00 AM EST, Wednesday, August 28, 2024, the following areas are reopened to the harvest of shellfish, except as described in 6NYCRR, Part 41, “Sanitary Condition of Shellfish Lands.” 1. Town of East Hampton: All the normally certified
Shellfish Dealers and Shellfish Harvesters, DEC-Shellfisheries collected water samples in several of the areas that DEC designated as temporarily uncertified (closed) on August 19, 2024, after the extraordinary rainfall event in excess of three (3) inches in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on August 18 – 19, 2024. Testing results from those samples indicated that the following areas can be re-opened to the harvest of shellfish. Effective at sunrise, Friday, August 23, 2024, the following areas are reopened to the harvest of shellfish, except as described in 6NYCRR, Part 41, “Sanitary Condition of Shellfish Lands.” Towns of Oyster Bay (North Shore) and Huntington: All the normally certified areas of Oyster Bay Harbor
Carissa Katz 8/22/24 – The East Hampton Star The recent heavy rainfall and flooding has made our waters unsafe according to reports provided by Concerned Citizens of Montauk (CCOM) last Sunday, August 18th. The water samples were taken from Springs, Napeague, Montauk, and East Hampton…all indicated the water bodies had high levels of enterococcus bacteria at nearly every spot the organization monitors. Photo Durell Godfrey East Hampton Star “The only safe water bodies that we test are the Long Island Sound on Soundview Drive beach” and a spot on the east side of Napeague Harbor, Kay Tyler, C.C.O.M.’s executive director,
Due to the extremely heavy rainfall and extraordinary volume of rainwater runoff associated with the rainfall of August 18, 2024 through August 19, 2024, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Shellfisheries Bureau has temporarily closed the following areas to shellfish harvest in East Hampton: “All that area of Northwest Harbor lying east of a line extending northerly from Barcelona Point to Cedar Point, Three Mile Harbor, Hog Creek, Accabonac Harbor, Napeague Harbor, and Montauk Harbor.” Please see the official notice below for further closure areas around Long Island. This information will be updated as soon as we receive
Saoirse Quinn and Trustee Ben Dollinger worked together to measure and tag a horseshoe crab. Photo Margarette Doyle From the May 30th 2024 issue of The East Hampton Star- the beginning of the spawning season of the horseshoe crabs in our waters. The East Hampton Town Trustees have been involved with Cornell Cooperative Extension for the last seven years to help tag and measure the horseshoe crabs and provide valuable data for the study of these prehistoric animals. The spawning season commences in May and runs through June. Horseshoe crab spawning season 2024 Photo Jim Grimes Read the article by
Georgica Pond, East Hampton, NY A toxic algal bloom has been detected in Georgica Pond, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services announced Friday, July 19, 2024. No Crabs should be taken during the algal bloom. “Due to these findings, health officials ask residents not to use or recreate in these waters and keep their children and pets away from the area,” the department said in a statement. Image of Blue Green Algae Bloom from DEC website Stony Brook University performed the analysis. The blue-green algae, which are naturally present in lakes and ponds here, have risen to concerning levels,
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Statement from Orsted Regarding Mooring System in Use
“As part of the fish monitoring study outlined in the SFW Fisheries Study Work Plan, the Stony Brook University team is conducting a regular visit to the sensor array off Wainscott today to collect data from sensors, replace batteries, and deploy new retrievable moorings alongside the previous moorings. As the Stony Brook team is deploying new moorings alongside the existing moorings there’s no change to the mariners briefing, our standard method for updating mariners on the presence of equipment in navigational waters. Members of the fisheries outreach team, in collaboration with the research team, have worked with the fishing community to select an alternative mooring, one that is smaller, lightweight and retrievable, and is more compatible with commercial fishing in response to the feedback we’ve received from the community on original deployment of cement moorings.”
Images of the mooring system and a diagram are shown below.
