West Hampton Dunes News

Situated in the middle of West Hampton Dunes on Dune Road, Pikes Beach took a bitter blow during Hurricane Sandy - and now, 6 months later, just as the summer season gets underway, remnants of that storm still sit at the site.

The Beach Barrier Preservation Association is holding a beach clean-up on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in West Hampton Dunes.

"I am alarmed as the dickens," Southampton Village Trustee Bill Hattrick told Patch Friday, as he described his concern over the devastation another hurricane could bring to the village's oceanfront homes if preventive measures are not taken.

In a Tuesday, July 24, 2001 file photo, a piping plover bird walks on the beach in West Hampton Dunes, N.Y. The endangered bird's return to Fire Island, N.Y., will severely restrict truck access to the barrier island during cleanup efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

In a Tuesday, July 24, 2001 file photo, a piping plover bird walks on the beach in West Hampton Dunes, N.Y. The endangered bird's return to Fire Island, N.Y., will severely restrict truck access to the barrier island during cleanup efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.