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2024 SPECIAL COMME
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AL A S AGL A A WAAWRADRS D G March 20, 2024
VOL. 33 NO. 13
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Will Crescent Beach open this summer? plans also called for the installation of pipes to channel estuary water into a bioswale — a On war m, calm summer channel that filters stormwater days, Glen Cove beaches beck- runoff — filled with plantings on visitors with serene beauty to purify the water before it — but for 10 years, the city’s reaches Crescent Beach and Hempstead Harbor; Crescent Beach has the cleaning of been closed due to existing pipes; sand bacterial contamireplenishment and nants found in the regrading; and the stream that empcreation of a basin ties out at the slope. beach. According to a This year, how2023 analysis cone v e r, t h e r e a r e ducted by Save the signs of hope that Sound, Crescent the beach will be Beach received a open again, as a discouraging C- ratcritical phase of its ing, and was among remediation plan the lowest-ranked nears completion. ROCCO GRAZIOSI beaches among 204 The recent replace- project manager, beaches in the ment of a culvert Glen Cove Long Island Sound marks a significant Department of Beach Re port. It milestone in efforts took into account to combat contami- Public Works how often water n at i o n t h at h a s was deemed unsafe plagued the beach for over a for swimming and the magnidecade. tude of contamination, and The state Department of Enviornmental Conservation noted persistent challenges facapproved a remediation plan ing Crescent Beach. The completion of the culfor Crescent Beach in the fall of 2021 that included the installa- vert replacement project, contion of two Helix water filtra- fir med by Glen Cove public tion systems, which were acti- works officials on Feb. 26, was a vated in the spring of 2022. The CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
By ROKSANA AMID
ramid@liherald.com
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Adrienne Daley/Herald photos
At St. Patrick’s Day Parade, everyone is lucky Hundreds of people gathered to mark St. Patrick’s Day by attending the annual parade in Glen Cove. Members of the Glen Cove Youth Bureau participated, decked out in green attire. And Darin Mitchell, 15 months old, managed to march for the first time ahead of the McGowan Contractor’s truck, which kept a good distance behind the toddler. A favorite event for young and old, the parade also included bands of Irish pipers, representatives from the city’s nonprofits, vintage cars, elected leaders, volunteer firefighters, police and even a leprechaun. More photos, Pages 14-15.
he residents can only go back to the beach after the county’s health department gives its OK.