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Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said the next steps in the Sunrise Highway aqueduct project will be discussed at the group’s June 27 meeting at Operation SPLASH headquarters in Freeport.

Officials update plans as Sunrise Highway aqueduct deemed in 'very good condition'

Engineers have determined that the 110-year-old aqueduct running underneath Sunrise Highway is in “very good condition,” and county officials are preparing for the next stages of a proposed project to refurbish and upgrade the pipe to transport treated sewage from Bay Park to Cedar Creek. more

By Mike Smollins and Julie Mansmann | 6/15/17

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

By Julie Mansmann and Mike Smollins | 4/21/17

Pipe study to close parts of Sunrise Highway from Bellmore to Lynbrook

The county will continue its inspection of an aqueduct under the Sunrise highway on Sunday, to determine if the 110-year-old pipeline can be used to transport wastewater from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek outfall pipe. more

By Erik Hawkins | 4/12/17

Still no love for ‘I Love NY’ signs

It has been nearly three years since the bright blue eyesores began appearing on highways statewide. That’s three years of complaints from local officials and residents . . . more

2/9/17

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

By Melissa Koenig | 1/4/17

A conduit to cleaner bays in Nassau County

The Rules Committee of the Nassau County Legislature recently approved a contract with a New York City engineering firm to review and inspect a 110-year-old, unused water pipe that runs under Sunrise Highway as a possible conduit for treated waste from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant (now called the South Shore Water Reclamation Facility) to the outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant on the Wantagh-Seaford border. more

By Mary Malloy | 11/30/16

Long Island can’t give up the fight against opioids

Make no mistake about it: Long Island is losing its battle against the heroin and opioid addiction that is plaguing our local neighborhoods. This new war on drugs includes opioid use, which in many cases . . . more

9/15/16

'Take It Easy' with Desert Highway

The band performs those classic hits in a later summer concert under the stars. more

8/17/16

A scene from the Arena Players’ Shakespeare Festival production of“Romeo and Juliet,” starring Tyler Monier-Williams and Christine Boehm.

Summer theatricals nearby

The summer theater/concert season is in full swing on our local stages and not to be missed. more

By Alyssa Seidman | 7/20/16

Nassau County has sent treated sewage into Reynolds Channel and the Western Bays since the late 1940s. A new county plan to divert the effluent to an ocean outfall pipe would end the practice, which would improve water quality in the bays, environmental experts say. Above, a view of the bays from the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick. Photo by Scott Brinton/Herald

County's pipe dream moving forward

Nassau County is looking to divert tens of millions of gallons of treated sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to the ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek plant on the … more

By Scott Brinton, Nick Ciccone, Andrew Hackmack and Laura Schofer | 5/20/16

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