FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 5, 2008
CONTACT: Mary Kelsey, 508-255-3573
mary.kelsey@comcast.net
TED KEON, DIRECTOR OF DEPT. OF COASTAL
RESOURCES/CHATHAM FEATURED AT JULY 17 ANNUAL MEETING OF PLEASANT BAY!
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the
Friends of
Pleasant Bay will take place on Thursday, July 17, at 7pm at the Wequassett Inn on Route 28 in East Harwich. The
Friends’
membership has observed and experienced the development of the new
Chatham
Inlet since April of 2007, as the January 1987 breach and the new inlet
opposite Minister’s Point fight for domination of the Pleasant Bay-Chatham Harbor system. Keynote
speaker Ted Keon, Director of the Coastal Resources Department in Chatham, has been continually involved with the
physical changes
and significant repercussions of the new inlet over the last year. He will discuss the present and potential
future ramifications of this inlet for all those who use the Bay. His talk will focus on the impacts of the new
inlet on the outer beach and mainland, changes in water levels and
tides,
future issues of concern, and other items of potential interest to the
audience. Mr. Keon’s talk will be
complemented with the most up-to-date visuals available.
As Director of the Coastal Resources
Department with
the Town of Chatham, Ted Keon is the primary liaison for Chatham’s marine and shoreline related activities. He oversees the planning and implementation
of projects affecting Chatham’s
waterways, coastal shorelines and water dependent infrastructure and
also
provides oversight of Chatham’s
Town Landings and water access.
Prior to his position with Chatham, Mr. Keon was the Chief of the Coastal
Planning
Section of the Philadelphia District of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. During his tenure with the
Corps, he was
actively involved in the planning and development of numerous shore
protection,
navigation and other coastal related projects along the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware and Delaware Bay. He holds
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Physical Geography from the University of Delaware and Arizona State University.
During the Annual Meeting, the following
schools and
teachers, recipients of the Friends of Pleasant Bay Competitive School
Grants
for 2007-2008, will display their accomplishments with present
free-standing
displays:
·
Sue Keohan, Orleans Elementary School
·
Cassandra
Kloumann, Chatham Middle School
·
Kathleen
Tringale, Nauset Regional High School.
The mission of the Friends of Pleasant
Bay, founded
in 1985 as a not-for-profit organization, is to promote education,
research and
public awareness of the area as one of critical environmental concern,
to
preserve open space and retain the visual quality of the area, to
ensure
habitat protection of the rich biological diversity and productivity of
the
Bay, to retain and enhance public access to the shoreline and to
preserve
natural and historic sites.
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the
Friends of
Pleasant Bay on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM is open to the public free of charge.
Refreshments will be served. The
event will take place at the Wequassett Inn on Route 28 in East Harwich.
Ted Keon,
Director of Coastal Resources for the Town of Chatham, can be reached
at:
508-945-5176 or tkeon@chatham-ma.gov
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