Cuomo backs project to bolster South Shore
Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Erosion damage caused by superstorm Sandy in front of homes along Soundview Drive in Montauk. (Nov. 19, 2012)
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has thrown his support behind a $700 million, large-scale, federally funded project that will upgrade natural and man-made storm protections along 83 miles of Suffolk's South Shore from Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point.
The project, half a century in the making, is the largest of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' construction and flood control measures funded by the...
