East Hampton Town’s Coastal Assessment Resiliency Plan, known as CARP, will have its own website.
The town board voted last Thursday to engage the services of Heather MacLeod for web design services. Samantha Klein of the town’s Natural Resources Department had told the board on May 2 that an evalua-
tion committee had deemed Ms. MacLeod’s proposal the best of the 16 received.
The town board voted in September to adopt CARP into the town’s comprehensive plan. The plan, according to that resolution, was created “in recognition of the need for proactive planning” to address the town’s “vulnerabilities to sea level rise, shoreline erosion, and flooding.” The plan notes that the currently projected range of sea level rise “will transform East Hampton into a series of islands with permanent submergence of low-lying areas as early as 2070,” with other long-term effects of climate change increasing the town’s vulnerability to coastal flooding and shoreline erosion.
The study also concludes that the chance of a flood with a magnitude similar to that of the Hurricane of ‘38, at least once, is about 60 percent during the next 30 years.
The next step is to make information easy for the public to access, Ms. Klein told the board on May 2.
