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STRONG'S Marine is PROPOSING

Building two over-sized boat storage buildings,

52,500 sq ft and 49,000 sq ft, that will each be 45’ tall 

(set on a 10’ elevation) standing 18’ higher than 

any other building on the Strong's Yacht Center property.


The project as planned will impact a 33-acre

wooded lot on Mattituck Inlet adjacent to Mill

Road Preserve, a 25-acre public woodlands.


As planned, the Strong's Marine project will:

• Cut down over 630 mature trees

• Haul away a hill of sand (134,000 cubic yards)

over narrow local roads, exacerbating

an already unsafe residential traffic issue

• Replace nearly four acres of a native forest

with warehouses for yacht storage

• Remove a natural feature that protects

against the effects of climate change

• Impact a significant coastal fish and wildlife habitat


 

Our Concerns

• Potential impacts of strip-mining the hillside and destroying the forest areas

• Surface water pollution

• Disruption of ground water, flooding, run-off, erosion

• Destruction of plant and animal ecosystems

• Diminishment of the aesthetic character of the

community

• Pedestrian safety during the months long excavation and construction

• Destruction of local roads by many oversized trucks

Find out more

Strong's Marine storage project at a glance

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What is being built?

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what could the strong's marine development process look like

Cutting down 634 trees

Watch what a Feller Buncher looks like to the left.  

Excavation of sand

The total amount of sand to be removed and sold is approximately 134,000 cubic yards.  This video is an example of small excavation.

Dump trucks

This video was taken near a single family home in Mattituck, down the street from the Strong's Yacht Center.  This was only a few trucks.  

Equipment trucking

Representative video (from a concerned resident of another town) of what it looks like when heavy construction and excavation equipment is trucked in and out of small residential areas using large trucks and trailers.

Concrete retaining wall (+more trucks)

This video example shows how retaining wall blocks are trucked to a site and unloaded.

Fire Risk

This video shows a storage building fire at a professionally run marina in Toledo, MI.  These were heated buildings that were 10' shorter that the ones being proposed.  The developer is proposing building even bigger sheds and heating them too, using 8,000 gallons of propane.  You can see how this fire spread.  Thankfully, everyone was ok.  It was a good thing these buildings were not located in a heavily wooded residential area.

strong's marine Illegal land clearing at the site (2017)

developer clearing site w/o permit (click next below)

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Where will the thousands of dump trucks take the sand?

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ICYMI - Our presentation to the mattituck-laurel civic assoc

Watch us present the project and outline some of our concerns on the mlca youtube channel here

We were also joined by Louise Harrison from Save the Sound, who gave an overview of the SEQRA process

sign our petition

Join us in protecting the area from the irreversible environmental destruction that would result from this project!  

Please note we are currently a self-funded group and are not asking for donations at this time.

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