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Friday, June 11, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 24
Port WashingtonTimes COUNTY EYES NORTHWELL CHOIR MANORHAVEN, SANDS POINT GO TO THE POLLS POLICE DIVERSITY ADVANCES PAGE 23
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Dejana parent flouted rules in Port: DEC State agency says Outworx Group let potentially polluted stormwater run into adjacent wetlands BY N O A H MANSKAR State officials have accused one of the North Shore’s largest municipal-services companies of violating rules meant to protect local waters from pollution, Blank Slate Media has learned. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Westbury-based Outworx Group flouted state regulations by letting potentially polluted stormwater run from its Manorhaven industrial property into wetlands adjacent
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Scott Falconer, Jr. reveals the new street name in honor of his grandfather Fred’s flower shop in Port Washington over the weekend, with a lift from his father Scott Sr. and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).
to the site without the proper safeguards in place. The facility at 12 Manorhaven Blvd. is home to Dejana Industries, the maintenance and trash-hauling outfit that serves several North Shore municipalities as an Outworx subsidiary. State officials who inspected the Dejana site on Jan. 7 in response to a complaint found the facility was discharging stormwater without a so-called State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit, which requires companies to take steps to prevent
pollution from such runoff, the DEC said. The officials documented stormwater runoff that “may have been in contact with street cleaning debris,” a potential source of pollution, according to the DEC. “Stormwater coming into contact with industrial waste material can pick up pollutants and discharge into the local waters,” the agency told Blank Slate Media in an email. “As such, permit coverage is needed along with a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan Continued on Page 35
Sands Point’s Foye to leave as MTA chairman Named interim CEO of Empire State Development Corp. BY R O S E W E L D ON
of the Empire State Development Corporation beginning After more than four years July 30, Gov. Andrew Cuomo as chairman and CEO of the announced Tuesday. Foye will be succeeded in Metropolitan Transit Authority, Patrick Foye of Sands Point his role as board chairman by will leave his positions to serve Sarah Feinberg, current interas interim president and CEO im president of New York City
Transit and the first woman to serve in the position. In his role as CEO of the transit agency, he will be replaced by the current president of MTA Construction and Development, Janno Lieber. Continued on Page 35
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