To the Editor:

While the state Department of Environmental Education commissioner was doing a photo op for the dune project on Long Beach Island, a few miles south in Holgate the DEP held a hearing to change rules to allow more development in a flood-prone area. The DEP says one thing and does the opposite.

It wants to build dunes to protect the beaches while proposing a rule change to develop on former wetlands impacted by Sandy.

May 13, 2015