[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 21, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-31437]


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[Federal Register: December 21, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement--Atlantic Coast of Long 
Island, Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet, Long Beach Island, NY, 
Storm Damage Reduction Project

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The responsible lead agency is the U.S. Army Engineer 
District, New York. The entire project shoreline is approximately seven 
(7) miles long and includes the communities of Point Lookout, Nassau 
Beach, Lido Beach, and the City of Long Beach, within the Town of 
Hempstead, in Nassau County. The Department of the Army plan addresses 
issues of storm induced erosion and inundation by widening the existing 
beach with the placement of hydraulic fill, the rehabilitation of 
sixteen (16) of the existing groins at Long Beach, and the construction 
of six (6) new groins west of Point Lookout at Lido Beach. The plan is 
designed to maintain a 110-foot berm width along the shoreline between 
west of Point Lookout to approximately Yates Avenue where it would 
taper into the eastern portion of the Village of Atlantic Beach.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Jacob K. 
Javits Federal Building, New York, New York 10278-0090.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Peter M. Weppler, DEIS Coordinator, (212) 264-4663.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Army has recommended a 
plan for implementation, called the selected NED plan. This plan 
includes groin rehabilitation and new construction, beach fill with a 
proposed berm height of +10-feet NGVD, and a dune system with a height 
of +15-feet NGVD. The selected plan has an average berm width of 110-
feet throughout the placement area and will not extend the beach west 
of Yates Avenue.
    An offshore borrow area located approximately 1.5 miles south of 
the project area will be utilized as a sand source. In order to provide 
for initial construction and four subsequent renourishments over 50 
years the selected NED plan would require 28.24 million cubic yards.
    For the selected NED, the construction of the six new groins at 
Lido Beach will need approximately 100,000 tons of armor stone (6 to 9 
ton range) and 30,000 tones of bedding stone. The stone volume required 
to rehabilitate the 16 groins at Long Beach is approximately 68,000, 
some of it reused from the existing groins.
    Environmental impacts will occur at the placement site and the 
borrow area. The fill site will see short-term loss of limited benthic 
habitat, already severely stressed and disturbed, and minor short-term 
water quality effects. The borrow area will suffer short-term benthic 
losses that will be replaced by rapid recolonization, and minimal water 
quality impacts that will be limited to the immediate vicinity and time 
of evaluation. Due to the New York State Department of Environmental 
Conservation's Bureau of Shellfisheries concern regarding impacts to 
the surf clam (Spisula solidissma). The District is proposing to 
perform a pre-dredge surf clam survey to confirm the presence of 
commercially-viable surf clam beds within the project area at time of 
construction (1998) and develop, in conjunction with the Bureau of 
Shellfisheries, a contingency plan to harvest all areas before 
construction activity is initiated. Impacts to potential shipwreck 
sites in the borrow area will be avoided through the designation of 
buffer zones. The project will be constructed in sections which will 
minimize interference with the recreational use of the project area.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-31437 Filed 12-20-94; 8:45 am]
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