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Friday, January 18, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 3
GUIDE TO WINTERTIME
ED BOARD EYES 7 PRIORITY PROJECTS
SUOZZI APPOINTED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE
PAGES 37-60
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Plandome Rd. sewer study in progress
TA S K F O R C E
Will determine feasibility of hooking up to Great Neck district system BY T E R I W EST A feasibility study to examine the potential for installing a wastewater management system on Plandome Road in Manhasset is underway, said Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Superintendent Chris Murphy. His district and the ManhassetLakeville Water District are jointly funding the study, which began at the end of the November and is costing about $200,000. A wastewater system, if feasible, would hook up to a sewer owned and operated by the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District. The study examines factors such as topography and soil conditions rather than potential cost, Murphy said. Studying road elevation will allow the districts to determine which existing sewer location a new system might be able to hook up to, he said.
Buildings on Plandome Road currently direct sewage to cesspools, which are underground, walled pits. Leakage allows anything in the water to soak into surrounding soil and eventually contaminate groundwater. “Your raw waste is going into a tank that is eventually leeching into the ground,” Murphy said. Members of the chamber have also said high cesspool maintenance costs are a deterrent to restaurants, which tend to require significant water use. “A wastewater management system on Plandome Road will allow businesses to get permits where they used to get denied because the cesspool system didn’t work,” said C.J. Coleman, past president of the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce. “That will increase the business on Plandome Road.” Water treated in the water Continued on Page 95
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE MINORITY CAUCUS
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announcing the new county marijuana task force with the group’s co-chairs, Legislator Josh Lafazan (left) and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. See story on page 6.
Manhasset-Lakeville joins water contamination suit BY T E R I W EST The Manhasset-Lakeville Water District is suing three chemical companies over pollution of wells, making it the county’s 10th water district to
do so. The water districts! claim the Dow Chemical Co., Ferro Corp. and Vulcan Materials Co. “willfully manufactured, promoted, and/or sold products containing 1,4-dioxane,”
a chemical that!the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is likely a carcinogen, in the county. The Manhasset-Lakeville Water District and the others Continued on Page 95
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