Editing Westhampton Beach, New York (section)

==History==
[[File:WesthamptonBeach 20180914 01.jpg|thumb|left|Westhampton Beach Shingle-Style Home.]]

Westhampton Beach Village was incorporated in 1928.<ref name="eastlongisland.com">{{Cite web|title=Westhampton Beach |work=Your Guide to East Long Island |publisher=EastLongIsland.com  |url=http://www.eastlongisland.com/the_south_fork_southampton/westhampton_beach/westhampton_beach.html}}</ref> In 1938, almost all summer homes on its barrier beach were obliterated by a [[1938 New England hurricane|hurricane]] resulting in twenty-nine local deaths.

Like most of the [[shore]]line of southern [[Long Island]], the beach at Westhampton Beach was eroding shoreward.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Mandia, Scott A. |title=Geological Impact of the 1938 Hurricane |url=http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/38hurricane/geological_impact.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101052541/http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/38hurricane/geological_impact.html |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |url-status=live}}
</ref> This became a political issue in the 1960s.  The project to protect the beaches in the area from further erosion was started by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1966, but was only partially completed because of the failure to secure funds from the state and local government. In addition the project design was seriously flawed.<ref name="WBD">{{Cite web|title=The Westhampton Beach Disaster |work=Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours |publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]] (USGS) |url=http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/parks/loc75.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616140207/http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/parks/loc75.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>  As a result, there was increased erosion at the beaches in Westhampton Beach while, up current, the beaches actually grew. During the late 1970s and through the 1980s, beach homes were washed away with every severe storm ([[nor'easter]]) that hit the coast. It was only after the nor'easter of November 1992 destroyed over eighty homes, that the Army Corps of Engineers began renewed repair efforts.<ref name="WBD" /> In the mid-1990s, fifteen historic houses were relocated by the Army Corps of Engineers. The homes were moved off the beach and out of harm's way, at least for a while, but the beach is still eroding and additional damage is incurred with every storm.<ref name="WBD" />  Additional work was required after [[Hurricane Sandy]] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Westhampton Beach Interim Project complete; caps two years' work restoring the New York-New Jersey coastline |date=February 26, 2015 |publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |url=http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Story-Article-View/Article/570983/westhampton-beach-interim-project-complete-caps-two-years-work-restoring-the-ne/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122233230/http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Story-Article-View/Article/570983/westhampton-beach-interim-project-complete-caps-two-years-work-restoring-the-ne/ |archive-date=November 22, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>