East Hampton Town Trustees

Christmas tree and Menorah at Herrick Park 2024 Holidays

Wishing All a Peaceful Holiday Season and New Year in 2025!

Herrick Park – Holidays 2024 Photo Susan McGraw-KeberRead More
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Vermont Joins New York to Protect Bees

Information from “Nature’s Voice” – Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Six months after the State of New York passed a law targeting neonic pesticides, Vermont followed to prohibit the use of seeds coated with deadly neurotoxic chemicals that have impacted the bee population at great loss. Just one neonic-coatedRead More
Groundwater Sustainability of the Long Island Aquifer System | U.S. Geological Survey

“Forever Chemicals” Restrictions: PFAS Found in Drinking Water

In the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) “Nature’s Voice newsletter this Fall, it reported that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restricted six toxic PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. This is the first time that the agency was successful in the attempt to restrict what is called “forever chemicals”Read More
Map of the area of Three Mile Harbor which remains closed to shellfishing.

UPDATE: Emergency Shellfishing Closures

Please be advised, the Emergency Shellfish Closures enacted by the New York State DEC on December 10-11, 2024 have been updated. The following areas remain closed to shellfishing: All that area lying within a 250-yard radius from the orange monument located on the southern shoreline at the entrance toRead More
Scallops Photo by Jon M. Diat EH Star

Six Seasons – Scanty Scallops

Scallops Photo by Jon M. Diat EH Star For the sixth season in a row, scallops have been hard to come by to harvest on the East End. Nantucket has a different story though…with more adult scallops found in Nantucket Harbor since 2012- read on for more information byRead More

Ocean Beaches

The Trustees generally claim ownership of certain ocean beaches WEST of Napeague Lane to Georgica Association and WEST of Georgica Association to East of Town Line Road.

Beach sunset of pink and blue wih the Moon


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