{"id":290642,"date":"2026-07-08T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:40:11","slug":"8m-state-grant-advances-stump-pond-dam-rebuild-in-blydenburgh-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290642\/","title":{"rendered":"$8M State Grant Advances Stump Pond Dam Rebuild In Blydenburgh Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funding supports the replacement of the Stump Pond Dam, which collapsed during the heavy rainfall of Aug. 18-19, 2024, draining the historic 118-acre pond and transforming the area into a free-flowing section of<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/smithtown\/nissequogue-river-named-endangered-suffolk-pushes-rebuild-dam-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> the<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/smithtown\/nissequogue-river-named-endangered-suffolk-pushes-rebuild-dam-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Nissequogue River<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dam&#8217;s future has been the subject of a years-long debate. Environmental organizations have argued that the river has experienced significant ecological recovery since the breach and have urged the county to preserve the free-flowing river. County officials, however, have maintained that rebuilding the dam is necessary to restore recreation, improve flood protection, and preserve the park&#8217;s historic character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funding supports the replacement of the Stump Pond Dam, which collapsed during the heavy rainfall of Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-290642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}