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New York state is stepping up efforts to improve drinking water quality and monitoring.
Fresh efforts to monitor drinking water quality
New York state will soon begin implementing changes that will alter the way drinking water is protected and monitored for the better. more
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Guy Mazza, acting director of the Department of Public Service’s Long Island office, presided over a public hearing in Malverne to discuss New York American Water's request for a rate hike in Oct. 2016.
Water company receives lower rate increase
The New York State Public Service Commission announced last week that it had lowered New York American Water Company’s requested rate increase, granting a first-year increase of $3.63 million — less than half of the $8.7 million requested by the company. more
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Water coming out of Diana Viglietta’s sink rusts her sink.
Water main replacement included in Lynbrook school budget vote
Diana Viglietta’s sink, bathtub and even her washer are all eroded from the rust water that comes out of her pipes on Abrams Place. For the past 14 years, she has had to replace countless towels, buy new dishwashers and send all of her family’s clothes to a laundromat. The rust is so bad, that Viglietta bought several new dishwashers in a single year, and can no longer get a warranty for it. She said the filters she installed do not even help the situation nor do they get rid of the water’s foul odor. more
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Construction was scheduled to begin on Sunrise Highway in Lynbrook on April 16 and continue through April 20. Crews will document the condition of the steel, rivets, joints, connections and valve chambers of the aqueduct that runs underneath the road.
Sunrise Highway aqueduct study moves forward
Nassau County officials remain optimistic that a 110-year-old aqueduct running underneath Sunrise Highway can transport treated sewage from the South Shore Water Reclamation Facility in Bay Park to … more
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New York American Water prepared a Malverne street for new water mains last year. The state said last week it will invest $2.5 billion in water infrastructure projects.
State allocates $2.5 billion for water quality
New York state’s new $163 billion budget passed last week, including an allocation of $2.5 billion for the Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which aims to improve water distribution systems’ safety and quality. more
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At the inaugural EREF 5K last spring, over $9,000 was raised and more than 200 people attended.
East Rockaway Education Foundation hosting 5K
The East Rockaway Education Foundation will be holding its second annual 5k race on March 25 at 9 a.m. The money collected will fund projects for teachers and administrators in the East Rockaway … more
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Red circles on this map, created by the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, mark areas with high 1,4 dioxane levels. Areas with a yellow circle indicate either no testing for dioxane was done, or the levels were unknown. A green circle shows areas with dioxane levels below the EPA maximum for a cancer-causing chemical: 0.35 parts per billion.
Carcinogen found in 39 L.I. water districts
Research from the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, compiled from three years of publicly available water quality reports, found high levels of 1,4 dioxane in water serviced by the 39 water districts, including the Water Authority of Western Nassau, the Franklin Square Water District, New York American Water’s Lynbrook and Merrick Operations Districts, and the Town of Hempstead Water District. more
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The special challenges of winter
Q. We came home from vacation to find water damage from frozen pipes in our new second floor, added last summer. We never expected this, but called the contractor who referred us to the plumber who, frankly, was no help. After 12 tries . . . more
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Times change: Remember the gladiators?
The sweep of history has ushered in the first woman ringmaster for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and, at the same time, swept out the entire circus, which will close in May. After 146 years in business . . . more
Brian Schneider, the county’s deputy public works director, said that funding for the $354 million project to reroute effluent from Bay Park to Wantagh via an aqueduct under Sunrise Highway is still being worked out, but preliminary work has started.
FEMA gives $5M for Sunrise Highway pipe project
The federal Emergency Management Agency is providing $5 million to help cover engineering costs for a planned project to send partially treated sewage from the Bay Park Water Reclamation Facility in East Rockaway to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Wantagh, where it will be sent for discharge three miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. more
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