Sailors Haven Channel Dredging Project

This Environmental Assessment (EA) identifies, describes, and analyzes the potential impacts from the maintenance dredging of 1,500- 2,000 cubic yards of material from the channel leading into the Sailors Haven Marina on Fire Island, in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. Sailors Haven Marina and Visitors Center and the adjacent Sunken Forest are owned by the National Park Service and part of the Fire Island National Seashore. Dredging is required as a result of sand drifting and settling around the entrance of the marina, creating a navigational safety hazard. Approximately one-third of the channel was impassible to boat and passenger ferry traffic during the summer of 2007 and it has been estimated by NPS staff that the channel may be completely impassible during the 2008 season. This condition is unacceptable. The marina provides the primary public access to the Sailors Haven Visitors Center, an important museum and interpretive orientation point for the Sunken Forest.

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