Plum Island
Plum Island, NY, Protection Focus of Meeting
Suffolk Times: Environmental groups from both sides of Long Island Sound will host a public meeting in Orient on Monday, April 29 on protecting Plum Island’s undeveloped areas. The Group for the East End and the Save the...
Meeting will Focus on Future of Plum Island, NY
A meeting concerning the zoning of Plum Island, off the eastern end of Long Island, will be held at 7:30 on May 7, 2013, at Southold Town Hall on 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York. The public is invited...
Plum Island Rock Wall Can’t Stand
GLOUCESTERTIMES.COM: The Department of Environmental Protection has sent a message to residents on two Plum Island roadways who have been dumping tons of rocks along the shoreline to keep waves from claiming their homes: When winter’s over, you...
Post-Storm Sandbars Pose Threat to Merrimack Boaters
Newburyport News: As if the threat to housing on Plum Island isn’t enough, some residents and local officials have expressed concern about storm-driven buildup of sand between the jetties and the ocean. At a Monday meeting of the Merrimack...
Homes Condemned on Plum Island After Storm
Wicked Local Newburyport Current: A flatbed truck carrying a corrugated steel “storage rental unit” rattled down Annapolis Way. The truck was leaving Plum Island with remnants of salvaged household’s belongings and perhaps a number of shattered dreams for...
$5.5 Million More for Plum Island, MA, Jetty Repairs
Newburyport News: Any concern that money would run out before repairs to the south jetty along Plum Island were completed evaporated yesterday with the announcement of an additional $5.5 million in funds for the project. The U.S....
Storm Causes Major Erosion On Cape Cod
Boston Globe: The bottom section of stairs down to Nauset Light Beach in Eastham? Gone. The Sandy Neck Beach parking lot in Barnstable? A chunk of that is gone, too, sucked into the Atlantic. Plum Island’s squishy sand, a...
License Extended for Plum Island Whale Watch Boat
Newburyport News: The business that hosts visitors on whale-watching cruises brings close to 10,000 to the city each summer, and last night (January 7) the Waterfront Trust voted to extend the license for such activity to the owners of...
Plum Island, MA, Homes Threatened by Erosion
Eagle Tribune: Efforts to shore up Annapolis Way houses in danger of falling into the ocean after a surprisingly powerful storm last week continued throughout the weekend with contractors placing tube-like coir sandbags in...
Merrimack Jetty Work Proceeding
Newburyport News: Members of the Merrimack Valley Beach Alliance were meeting yesterday morning on Plum Island here, when a heavily loaded 18-wheeler rumbled by. “There goes some stone,” said Edward O’Donnell, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps...
