Letter: Endangering Our Beaches

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Re "Dispute in Hamptons Set Off by Effort to Hold Back Ocean" (front page, April 18):

Evidence of how armoring destroys beaches and erodes adjacent beaches can be seen at the bulkheads fronting the developed sections of Great South Bay. There, on both the Long Island and Fire Island shores, the water is deeper right in front of the bulkheads than farther out, and the remaining beaches are no longer contiguous with the bulkheads but inshore of them. We don't want this on the ocean shore!

As for the breach opposite Bellport ("Fire Island's Lucky Break," by Lawrence Downes, The Suburban Life, April 18), it's normal. It is at the exact site of the "Old Inlet" that was there from 1783 to 1827. Indians called such places cupsages, or passages between islands that opened and closed. Since 1690 there have been 12 recorded and mapped. They are vital to bay ecology.

Too many cupsages would destroy Fire Island as we know it. More armoring, such as at Southampton, could destroy the whole South Shore.

ROBERT F. SAYRE
Iowa City, April 22, 2013

The writer is author of the forthcoming book "Fire Island, Past, Present and Future: The Environmental History of a Barrier Beach."

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