SOUTHAMPTON & EAST HAMPTON TOWNS' WATER PLANS
The guiding principle of Southampton's and East Hampton's watershed protection/management plan which the South Fork Ground Water Task Force has been actively lobbying them to create/adopt/implement since early 1997, has been to drag its feet so that all the prime watershed areas will have been bought and developed if they dawdled long enough. Certainly, it has been Southampton Town's modus operandi. Neither Town has had the political will to grapple with the hard choices that protecting this resource demands, and they have purposely dragged their feet.
The following are our critiques and recommendations for Southampton's draft "Critical Wildlands and Groundwater Protection Plan", and East Hampton's groundwater measures (which are currently a part of its Comprehensive Plan). These plans can be accessed on Southampton Town's and East Hampton Town's Websites.
Southampton Town's Plan:
The “draft Critical Wildlands & Groundwater Protection Plan”
Our Recommendations & It’s Drawbacks/ faults - (before and after the plan was issued for public hearings)
 South Fork Groundwater Task Force
PO BOX 2360 Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Phone/Fax: 631 - 725 - 6200
Site By: Hamptons Online
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