East End Notebook: Luxury Senior Housing, Eco-Energy Park & More

SOUTHAMPTON

VIDEO: Treatment of Mill Pond Nutrient Pollution Begins

The Southampton Town Trustees, who are in charge of the town's waters, as well as members of the Southampton Town Board and representatives of environmental services companies gathered at Mill Pond in Water Mill Monday for the start of a of the beleaguered water body.

Mill Pond is being given an application of Phoslock, a substance that mixes the Australian-mined rare earth element lanthanum with benthic clay. Phoslock is designed to capture phosphorus, a nutrient that algae feeds on. Phosphorus, from septic systems and fertilizer, gets to water bodies through the groundwater and stormwater runoff, and when there is too much of it, algal blooms may occur.

The trustees previously cordoned off a channel of Mill Pond last year to test Phoslock, and Trustee Fred Havemeyer said last month that, after the successful trial run, they are trying on the whole 87-acre pond. The four-day process is the first Phoslock application in New York State, he added.

Watch video from the press conference here.

HAMPTON BAYS

Hampton Bays Locals Continue Exploring Village Incorporation

The Hampton Bays Civic Association is taking the next step in delving into an idea to incorporate the hamlet of Hampton Bays as a village.

On Monday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at theSouthampton Senior Center in Hampton Bays, the civic association will hold a meeting to form an exploratory committee and sub committees with appointed committee chairs.

This will be the third meeting the civic has held on the idea to incorporate, with the civic broaching the idea at a meeting in January.

RIVERHEAD

Town to Suggest No Special Permit for Boy Scout Camp Course

A Baiting Hollow couple, upset with an outdoor challenge course being built about 100 feet off their property on the neighboring Boy Scout Camp, has hired an attorney who has refuted the process through which the course could be approved.

But the assistant town attorney in charge of the application has suggested that as of now, all is going on as it should be.

Bob and Mary Oleksiak, who have lived at their Silver Beech Lane property for 24 years, have taken to the press and spread the word at a recent civic association meeting to express their concern at the Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience course that's in the planning stages near the eastern boundary of the 89-acre Boy Scout property.

NORTH FORK

After discussing the plan with village trustees last month, Greenport Mayor David Nyce presented a plan to Southold Town Board members on Tuesday morning that would create an 'Eco-Energy Park' on about nine acres the village owns bordering the Long Island Sound.

The parcel, known as Clark's Beach, falls outside the incorporated village bounds, and as a plot within Southold Town, and Nyce said on Tuesday he and village leaders are hoping to partner with the town in making the project come to life.

Nyce presented the plans with a/b architect principals Hideaki Ariizumi, Glynis Berry, and creative consultant Lillian Ball. While Nyce noted at the presentation that the project in its current form is rather conceptual (a PDF of the project is attached), Southold Supervisor Scott Russell said on Wednesday that the lack of details would prove difficult for the town to devote any resources of its own to it at this point.

EAST HAMPTON

Luxury Senior Housing Proposed for 24-Acre Amagansett Parcel

Developers are proposing a senior housing residential development at the former Ocean View Farm in Amagansett that they say is cutting edge.

Known simply as "555," for its address on Montauk Highway, the complex would be the first fair market value development for seniors in the Town of East Hampton, while also being the first environmentally sustainable age-restricted adult active community in the entire state.

Francis P. Jenkins III, a partner at Putnam Bridge and the project manager, said the 89 units would sell for between $800,000 to $1.8 million.