Letters To The Editor

Letter: CRMC, SK Leaders Let Matunuck Down

Susan Rivera Russo, a former resident of Matunuck, criticizes its treatment from the town and the CRMC.

To the editor, It took them – the Coastal Resources Management Council and the Town of South Kingstown – almost 40 years to "decide" on how to preserve Matunuck from disaster and oblivion.  The resolution was to build a wall and have it built by October.  Granted, as of this writing, there are six days left in the month to execute "their" plans, which is more like trying to work a miracle.  It appears that the only thing to be "executed” will be Matunuck. Shame on you, Mr. Alfred. Shame on you, present and past members of the South Kingstown Town Council. Shame on you, CRMC. But once again, what do any of you care??? You do 'not' lose your home, your job or your business. You lose "nothing."    There is just so much that people can take, …

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$1.6M in Federal Funding Secured for Matunuck

According to a release from Jim Langevin’s office, $1.6 million has been secured for the stabilization of Matunuck Beach Road.

Release courtesy of Jim Langevin’s office. Legislation approved today just before Saturday’s expiration of funding for transportation projects will ensure that dozens of necessary repairs and improvements to Rhode Island’s infrastructure can happen this year. Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), who for months has implored House Republicans to agree to a long-term solution, helped the House pass H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act, which authorizes two years of funding with measures similar to a bipartisan Senate bill that he had supported. The Senate passed its previous version, MAP-21, with 74 votes more than 100 days ago. It was estimated to deliver more than $500 million in federal transportation funding to Rhode Island, …

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CRMC to Allow Retaining Wall Along Matunuck Beach Road

Reversing course, the Coastal Resources Management Council voted on Tuesday night to allow the town to build a retaining wall along Matunuck Beach Road to protect it from rapidly approaching beach erosion.

CRMC: Matunuck Shore Not Manmade

The CRMC nixed the town's effort to reclassify Matunuck as a man-made shoreline, ensuring that a seawall to stave off erosion would not be in the village's future.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Despite the riprap, scattered seawalls and foundations that now kiss the ocean on Matunuck’s coast, its shoreline is not manmade, according to a vote Tuesday by the state Coastal Resources Management Council. The vote was the second denial of town efforts that would have allowed Matunuck’s home and business owners to erect hard structures to help stave off erosion and further loss of property. However, residents were not left without hope for a solution that could save homes, infrastructure and even re-grow the sandy beaches that were once characteristic of the area. At the opening of the meeting, the council voted 7-0, with Anthony Affigne abstaining, to reconsider its April 10 denial to review the town’s application to …

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