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East Hampton Town Will Fill Ditch Plains Beach With New Sand for Summer, Will Rebuild Dunes in Fall

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Ditch Plains Beach will get a dose of sand from East Hampton Town next month and multi-million-dollar dune restoration next winter. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Ditch Plains Beach will get a dose of sand from East Hampton Town next month and multi-million-dollar dune restoration next winter. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Ditch Plains Beach will get a dose of sand from East Hampton Town next month and multi-million-dollar dune restoration next winter. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Ditch Plains Beach will get a dose of sand from East Hampton Town next month and multi-million-dollar dune restoration next winter. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Summer visitors who returned to Montauk this week found one of its most iconic spots, Ditch Plains Beach, a denuded mess compared to what it had been last summer, following... more

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