Applications are now being accepted by organizations or property owners in the Town of East Hampton. TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR SECOND ROUND OF WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN 2024 The Town of East Hampton announced this week that it would be issuing the second round of a Request for Applications (RFA) of 2024 to award grant funding up to a total of $1,500,000 for water quality improvement projects. The Water Quality Technical Advisory Committee established this bi-annual process to allow applicants wishing to obtain grant funding for water quality improvement projects to be considered. Through this
Date: June 9th- Sunday at Montauk Library 4:00 – 5:30pm RSVP as seating is limited. Go to:@PreserveMontauk.org/Events
Special Notice to All Shellfish harvesters in the Town of East Hampton To read the notice, use the gray scroll bar on the right. SNTSH-05-29-2024-East-Hampton-NAPH.Legal-SizeDownload
Each May and June, Motorists Advised to be on the Alert for Turtles Crossing Roads World Turtle Day is May 23 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar today reminded New Yorkers that turtles are nesting in May and June and encouraged motorists to ‘give turtles a brake.’ In New York, thousands of turtles are killed each year by unsuspecting drivers when turtles cross roads to find nesting areas. “Vehicle strikes are a major cause of mortality among turtles and at this time of year, turtles are particularly vulnerable as they seek sandy areas or loose soil
Peter Topping – Peconic Baykeeper: Executive Director & Baykeeper using the “chronolog” Hampton Bays, New York- The Hampton Bays based not-for-profit environmental advocate Peconic Baykeeper, with grant support from the Peconic Estuary Partnership is proud to announce the launch of Project R.I.S.E. (Recording Inundation Surrounding the Estuary), an innovative community science and outreach initiative aimed at engaging the East End community in documenting coastal changes surrounding the Peconic Estuary. To date, Peconic Baykeeper has worked with nine different site partners for this project which will use a community science platform called “chronolog” to capture images from each site over an
Please be advised, due to the extremely heavy rainfall, extraordinary amounts of stormwater runoff and the localized flooding associated with the rainfall event of May 15, 2024 through May 16, 2024, all of the area of Northwest Harbor lying southeasterly of a line extending northerly from Barcelona Point to Cedar Point, Three Mile Harbor, Hog Creek and Accabonac Harbor, including all of their tributaries are CLOSED to shellfishing per the DEC until further notice. You may check the DEC website or return to this website for further developing information. CLOSURE ORDER 05-16-2024 SIGNEDDownload
On May 11th at 9AM, the members of the Lazy Point Association gathered at the boat launch to help pick up litter on the beaches and roads in their community. The Town of East Hampton Litter Action Committee organized a month-long effort entitled “No-Fling Spring” at various locations designated for litter clean-ups that began on April 20th and will continue through May 18th. Location: Literally at Lazy Point, Amagansett. L-R Susan McGraw-Keber, Lazy Point Association President George Eldi, Jr., Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker, George Eldi, Sr., Susan George, and East Hampton Town Trustee Celia Josephson. Photo Durell Godfrey Lazy
A tagged horseshoe crab was discovered at Flying Point in Southampton by photographer and resident Danny Sit at the end of April this year. The photo was sent to Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program’s Matt Sclafani, Marine Educator. Jennifer Lander of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and a biologist with the Marine Invertebrates, Salvage, and Cartilaginous (MISC) Unit wrote: “It’s exciting to see the first recapture of the season! From our database, tag ID 476140 was tagged 5/28/2022 at Pikes Beach. Also, at the time of the tagging the HSC had 26-50% shell coverage.” The Trustees volunteer to
In addition to helping your pets avoid these issues including the possibility of cancer, chemicals on your property end up in your well water! Let your lawn be a pollinator for bees – dandelions, clover, moss, and native plantings are all beneficial for birds and pollinators! From PRFCT EARTH PRJCT – helpful tips for creating a healthy lawn- PRFCT Lawn basics
On Sunday, May 5th, new and returning “oyster farmers” who joined The East Hampton Shellfish Hatchery’s program to grow oysters and attend classes to learn about our local shellfish- scallops, clams, and oysters, had their first of the season’s maintenance and set-up. Trustee David Cataletto and former Trustee Susan McGraw-Keber, and new team “farmers” Gordian Raake and Roger Skelton, met with Chris Gray of the hatchery to switch their oysters, which spent the winter submerged in a large cage, to new clean floating bags, which will make it much easier to care for the oysters in the months ahead. At
The following Resolution was unanimously adopted by the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton. Resolution #2024-32 Adopted on April 22, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock.com Photo: Pangea Shellfish Company RESOLUTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Tom House – 631-537-6646 – hamptonsprideinc@gmail.com Third Annual Hamptons Pride Parade, Saturday, June 1, 2024 April 2024 You are cordially invited to make history again in East Hampton Village’s Third Annual Hamptons Pride Parade on Saturday, June 1st. Following the last two years’ inaugural, runaway successes, Mayor Jerry Larsen has asked local nonprofit, Hamptons Pride, to continue to organize the parade, and the East Hampton Village Police to again expertly direct it. Lineup starts at 11 a.m. on Main Street near Pondview Lane and Guild Hall, and the parade kicks off at noon. Registered participants will march east on
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.
