The Fire Island to Montauk Point project is a far-reaching $2.4 billion initiative reducing flood risk to vulnerable areas along 83 miles of coastline from Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point — including the barrier beaches of Fire Island and the mainland of Long Island’s south shore. A project of this magnitude has been made possible through support from New York District partners at the federal, state, and local level.
Recently, the Army Corps completed placing 450,000 cubic yards of sand at Downtown Montauk on the eastern tip of Long Island through FIMP, fortifying a shoreline eroded by severe storms. In a separate — but related — initiative, this fall the New York District, through recently-obtained emergency funding due to severe storms last fall and winter, will conduct sand placement of approximately 2 million cubic yards of sand encompassing 44,000 linear feet (nearly 9 miles) in the Fire Island communities of Cherry Grove, Fire Island Pines, Seaview, Ocean Bay Park, and Davis Park, respectively.
The next part of FIMP is a major initiative where the Army Corps of Engineers has identified 4,400 homes/structures in Suffolk County eligible for home-raising to reduce flood risk in these areas prone to frequent flooding — even without major storms. Some areas include Mastic Shirley, western sections of the Town of Brookhaven, and the Frederick Shores community in The Town of Babylon.
