The threats of rising sea levels, coastal erosion and stormwater flooding are prompting Northport Village officials to study ways to protect and shore up their popular waterfront and whether the addition of a harborfront walk would help.

Now, officials in the North Shore community will get a boost from a federal grant of almost $70,000 to be used for that purpose.

The study will look at environmental causes of flooding downtown, said trustee Dave Weber Jr., Northport's commissioner of docks and waterways and wastewater management. He said the village began considering a harborfront walk about four years ago, when the Town of Huntington started exploring that idea for Huntington Harbor .

“It’s a feasibility study to see whether creating a harbor walk would be the right way to go abou

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