The Fire Island Association’s Summer Meeting will be held on Saturday, July 31, at the Community House in Ocean Beach, starting at 11 am. The main speaker will be Congressman Steve Israel (D., NY-2nd), whose district includes most Fire Island communities. Mr. Israel is a member of the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Energy and Water [...]
Fire Island’s Natural Neighborhoods
By Bob Spencer
An island in the ocean – with its mystique enhanced by being a bit isolated – offers essential treasures to those who seek peaceful freedom of mind.
Fire Island’s barrier beach island – 32 miles long, bordering the south of Great South Bay — has millions of people [...]
Growing anxiety about safety and security, and quality-of-life matters, led three Fire Island Association Directors to the Patchogue office of County Legislator Jack Eddington in February (photo 1). The issue was brought to the fore last August by Fire Island’s representative in the State Assembly, Ginny Fields, [...]
The Fire Island Association and the Fire Island National Seashore are cooperating on a New York City Meeting. Its primary purpose is to discuss revising the Seashore’s General Management Plan (GMP), but it will also provide an opportunity to raise questions Fire Islanders may have regarding Fire Island that the National Seashore or FIA can [...]
The following email and pdf document was received today from Chris Soller. The time for participating in the “Visioning Project” has been extended to January 15, 2010. FIA members and others who care about Fire Island’s future are encouraged to click on visionfireisland.com and participate, if you have not already done so.
Jerry:
As we have discussed, [...]
I walked the entire Kismet beach today, October 24, west to east. Kismet has a high wide dune in front of four of our five walks ranging from 60′-100″ in depth except for the most easterly walk, where the first row house extends out beyond the row line. At that location, the dune has a south to north depth of about 40′. [...]
Saltaire suffered only relatively minor erosion — some scouring, but no damage to the dunes, stairs, fencing, etc. No scarping at all. Scouring never got closer to the dunes than about 10 feet in one limited area, farther away everywhere else. The sand is still in our system and the project seems to be doing [...]
I watched the events unfold last weekend and finally got to walk the beach yesterday an hour or so before low tide. About two thirds of the community (4100 feet long) saw some scarping ranging from 1 foot to 4 feet in the worst areas and then tapering back down. We lost one set [...]
In Dunewood this past weekend water came past our snow fencing on the ocean but we did not appear to lose substantial dune. We did lose height on the beach front and will need some favorable winds to get buildup to help us thru winter. The water in the bay was raging and the highest that I can remember, [...]
Anyone reading the Times weather page in the ten days leading up to Sunday, October 18 had an excuse for being anxious. The maritime forecast consistently reported winds from the northeast anywhere between 10 and 30 mph, “with higher gusts,” for more than a week straight. Those winds not only pummeled the newly restored beaches, [...]