Asharoken’s village board will hold a public meeting tonight at 7:30 to discuss the village’s next step in the wake of a court ruling against it in a long battle with KeySpan Energy over beach erosion.
Mayor William Kelly said the village had been in touch with the Army Corps of Engineers to try to enlist its aid. “We didn’t get a decision,” he said this afternoon, “but we got a promise of a decision,” which is expected next month.
Kelly also said an attorney for the village would be present to talk about appealing the court’s decision to throw out the suit, which had been filed against the former Long Island Lighting Co. Village officials and residents had argued in the $20-million lawsuit that high-powered expulsion of about 1 million gallons of water per minute from the utility's Northport power plant into Long Island Sound disrupts the flow of sand to the shore. The judge's decision said the Army Corps of Engineers found a loss of 20,000 cubic square yards, according to Kelly.
KeySpan Energy, which now owns the plant and inherited the suit, had always disputed the beach erosion was the plant's fault.
Tonight’s hearing is to take place at the Laurel Avenue School in Northport.
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