Hook Pond Meeting Saturday

The water quality of Hook Pond and measures being considered to improve it will be addressed at an open meeting on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Village Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street.

Lombardo Associates, an environmental consulting and engineering firm, which conducted a study of the pond on behalf of the village, with partial funding from the town, will present its findings.

According to the study, the pond is eutrophic, meaning that its oxygen has been depleted. The average dissolved oxygen level was found to be significantly lower in 2014 than in the prior year, and below the minimum daily average set by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation necessary to support fish, shellfish, and wildlife propagation and survival. The study is posted on the village’s website, easthamptonvillage.org.