We hope that a campaign can be mounted to get these funds approved by the Senate and then kept in the bill in House-Senate conference. It would be a pity to lose this opportunity to prevent those lots from ever being built upon. Then irresponsible builders would probably put houses there, endangering the land behind. Beach Replenishment Real estate interests have launched a law suit against the government in Federal Court. Fire Island Ecology Coalition is considering entering the case on the side of the government as a Friend of the Court.
Environmentalists generally oppose beach replenishment.
In fact, the National Parks Conservation Association has included Fire Island National Seashore on its Ten Most Endangered Parks list precisely because of the threat that the Army Corps' beach renourishment proposal poses to the park. Lyme and West Nile diseases. NPCA on Interim Project. Your Coalition's testimony at the Army Corps of Engineers hearing. Val Washington, executive director of Environmental Advocates, explains why this expensive project is now in hot water.