- June 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
On the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, this looked like the year everything would finally turn around for Cathy Goodnough and the marina that’s been the family business for 116 years.
Greene Pointe Marina at Sandy Pond had been destroyed in the flood of 2017, rebuilt, and raised up at a cost of more than $1.2 million, only to be damaged again by flooding in 2019.
With the coronavirus pandemic easing, Goodnough began preparing for a banner summer at Sandy Pond and the surrounding beaches at Sandy Island Beach State Park in northern Oswego County.
She led a group of marina and camp owners who paid a company to dredge sand from a shallow channel that provides the only access for boaters to travel between Sandy Pond and Lake Ontario.
But four days into the project on April 24, state and federal authorities abruptly ordered the dredging to stop, effectively cutting off access for all but the smallest boats and threatening to ruin another season for Sandy…