tideland

The commission sent Attanasio’s lawyer Kenneth Ehrlich a notice of violation in September, claiming that contractors working on Attanasio’s beach house illegally excavated sand and operated heavy machinery within state tidelands.

But trees and other debris still dotted the tidelands and lower portions of the snow-covered scar on a recent day.

This time, they moved the plot west and lower on the tideland in hopes the oysters would be better protected.

During the meeting, Kim also called for officials to build new irrigation systems, supply more efficient farming machines and convert more tideland into farmland.

Putting a barrier there would “cause irreparable environmental impacts” by interfering with ecologically rich tidelands, Burks-Copes says.