TOWN OF MORIAH

 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 1 OF 2026

 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Moriah, Essex County,

New York, will meet at the Court House located at 42 Park Place, Port Henry, New York 12974, on the 15th day of October, 2026, at 5:45 p.m. for the purposes of conducting a Public Hearing to

introduce Local Law No. 1 of 2026 entitled. “Local Law for Flood Damage Prevention as

Authorized by the New York State Constitution, Article IX, Section 2, and Environmental

Conservation Law, Article 36”

 

The purpose of this Local Law is to promote the public health, safety, and general

welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by

provisions designed to: (i) regulate uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due

to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights

or velocities; (ii) require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such

uses, be protected against flood damage at the time or initial construction; (iii) control the

alteration of nature floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers which are

involved in the accommodation of flood waters; (iv) control filling, grading, dredging, and other

development which may increase erosion or flood damages; (v) regulate construction of flood

barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other

lands; and (vi) qualify and maintain for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.

 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at said Public Hearing to be held at the time

and place set forth above, the Town Board will consider this Local Law and hear all parties

interested therein concerning the same.

 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the full text proposed Local Law

No. 1 of 2026 may be obtained upon request from the Town Clerk of the Town of Moriah

 

Dated: September 17, 2026

 

Rose French, Town Clerk

Town of Moriah

38 Park Place

Port Henry, NY 12974