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Army Corps Crews Return To Montauk This Week To Repair Beach Wall On Oceanfront

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The Army Corps of Engineers is returning to Montauk to rebuild ocean beach damaged by storm earlier this year. KYRIL BROMLEY

The Army Corps of Engineers is returning to Montauk to rebuild ocean beach damaged by storm earlier this year. KYRIL BROMLEY

author on Dec 5, 2016
Contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will return to Montauk this week to begin to restore the artificial dune above a sandbag revetment along the downtown oceanfront. The... more

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