2009 FIRE ISLAND, NY BEACH RENOURISHMENT
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION AND LOCATION
Eleven Fire Island communities are currently concluding a beach
renourishment project that began construction on January 27, 2009. The
eleven communities, shown below (figure 1) are part of the Towns of Islip
and Brookhaven, and the Villages of Saltaire and Ocean Beach, on Long
Island, New York.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jerry Stoddard
(212) 929-6415
Homeowners and Officials Tour Fire Island Beach Projects
Ocean Beach, N.Y. April 17 — Elected and agency officials joined coastal engineers and homeowner representatives on April 17 in a tour of a beach nourishment project Fire Island homeowners hope will protect their communities.
CPE’s Nicole Sharp reported late Wednesday that Ocean Bay Park’s project was completed late Tuesday. Operations moved to Seaview and west and had extended from Fairway Avenue to Crescent Avenue by Wednesday night. The RN Weeks left early Wednesday morning for repairs and the BE Lindholm stopped pumping around noon due to rough seas. [...]
Coastal Planning & Engineering’s Quin Robertson reported that pumping began in the Central Reach (Ocean Bay Park to Corneille Estates/Summer Club) around midnight on March 31. The R.N. Weeks pumped 2,300 cubic yards of sand before midnight that night and has since pumped another 85,000 yards in Seaview. There are two submerged pipelines, central and [...]
Despite equipment problems that prevented double pumping (where both of Weeks Marine’s dredges are at work in a single location) and a last-minute onset of bad weather, the projects at Fire Island Pines and Davis Park are expected to have been successfully concluded before the date at which activity at the eastern end [...]
CPE’s Nicole Sharp reports that progress is good at Davis Park with two dredges operating there since Friday March 20. Both the RN Weeks and the BE Lindholm moved to Davis Park late Friday evening to increase the rate of beach construction. As of this afternoon, approximately 50 linear feet of beach was left [...]
Early results of the first pumping at Davis Park can be seen in the following link:
http://www.davispark.info/Leja/Endless/031509/index5.htm
Nicole Sharp reported that on Saturday pumping on the eastern segment of FI Pines commenced early in the morning when the pipeline was flipped from the western segment. [When the submerged pipeline brings sand onto the center of the beach, above-ground pipe directs it to one end of the project area. When that part [...]
Nicole Sharp of CP&Ereports: Pumping continues in Fire Island Pines to complete the western portion of the segment. Weeks expects to be finished pumping the lower portion of the western segment by Friday night. Once the western portion of FI Pines is finished, the pipe will be flipped to complete the remaining eastern portion of [...]