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National Parks Service:  The Old Inlet Breach at Fire Island

National Parks Service: The Old Inlet Breach at Fire Island

by Marshall Brown | May 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Here is the latest news from The National Parks Service on the breach. It substantiates what people at Save the Great South Bay and what marine scientists have been saying, based on the data, and on a thorough knowledge of barrier beach dynamics. Here are the key...

Kayaking The Old Inlet aka The New Inlet aka The Breach April 25th and April 26th 2013

by Marshall Brown | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Save The Great South Bay here presents two videos from two Facebook Group members. The first is from Dan Smith, an avid kayaker and Brookhaven resident, of what he (like many) refer to as The Old Inlet, but which others know as The New Inlet or The Breach. Call it...

Video of The New Inlet (Philip Coccari)

by Marshall Brown | Apr 22, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

  Published on Apr 21, 2013 This is the breach created during tropical storm Sandy. This new inlet has revitalized the Great South Bay in the area of the New Inlet. It is amazing how clean the Bay is! — Philip...
Proof That Flooding Along The Eastern Seaboard is Causing The Flooding Starting With Sandy?

Proof That Flooding Along The Eastern Seaboard is Causing The Flooding Starting With Sandy?

by Marshall Brown | Mar 22, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

Too bad our politicians Senator Charles Schumer and Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone announced November 19th, just a couple of weeks after Sandy, that they were moving to try and close The Old Inlet, which reopened after 175 years following Hurricane Sandy,...
Flooding and Coastal Erosion Up and Down the Coast — It’s Not Just The Great South Bay

Flooding and Coastal Erosion Up and Down the Coast — It’s Not Just The Great South Bay

by Marshall Brown | Mar 21, 2013 | Fixing Habitats

Here is just a short list of articles on coastal flooding and erosion in the Northeast.   While local politicians and some shoreline residents point at a breach at The Old Inlet as the source of their flooding woes, a much larger picture, as large as climate change...
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