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Drainage in Cos Cob: What’s the Cost of Doing Nothing?

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And like the previous meetings for the Pemberwick and Brothers Brook drainage area neighbors responded with frustration that the town wasn’t doing more to mitigate flooding and the emphasis on action items was for residents to do their own flood mitigation. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Government, Real Estate, Army Corps of Engineers, Arn Welles, Bible Street Park, Chris von Keyserling, coastal flooding, Cos Cob

LETTER: Mead Point Development Blocks Access to Public Waters

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The proposed property is built on an island knoll surrounded by a mile and a quarter of shoreline that includes two tidal ponds. Through the review and discovery process DEEP has reported that the larger tidal pond was created by a causeway and a bridge, which were illegally constructed as neither has ever been permitted. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Letter to the Editor, long island sound, Myra Klockenbrink, sustainability committe

Greenwich Land Trust Announces Waterfront Land Acquisition in Riverside

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Though small, the conservation value of Willowmere Parmelee Allen Preserve is mighty. With the amount of development along the coast of Greenwich and Connecticut as a whole, conserving more than a half-acre of intertidal salt marsh habitat is vital to the ecological health of our coastal areas. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Greenwich Cove, Greenwich Land Trust, intertidal salt marsh, long island sound, Willowmere Parmelee Allen Preserve