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Q. We have a high water table and are being told our new foundation can only go down 2 feet before we hit water. The architect’s plans say we need to be below 3 feet, but . . .
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1/21/16
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Q. We interviewed three contractors for a spring project, and one kept talking about switching to using spray foam insulation. Is it better because it costs a lot more?
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By Monte Leeper
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12/11/15
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Over 10,000 water balloons awaited the crowd of 200 on Aug.12, in the field behind Saint Anthony’s Church on Anchor Avenue in Oceanside. It was billed as Long Island’s largest water balloon fight, and organized by Oceansider Kash Calderon.
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9/2/15
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On Long Island, we worry about our water –– a lot. After all, it comes from a series of sole-source aquifers, stores of ancient water buried deep underground that are recharged not by rivers and lakes, but by rainwater alone.
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7/29/15
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Pope Francis issued an encyclical last month that focuses on our responsibility for and connections to the environment and the poor. I’ve only read the first half of “Laudato Si’" . . .
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7/1/15
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American Water announced in a press release last week that Brian Bruce has been appointed president of New York American Water.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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6/17/15
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In 1970, Americans finally awoke to the horrifying toll they were taking on our fragile environment. That year, Congress passed the Clean Air Act . . .
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4/23/15
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New York American Water officials were on the scene of a water main break at the intersection of Winona Road and Anderson Street in Baldwin, on Mar. 6, that left homes in Oceanside without water service, or low water pressure for part of the day.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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3/11/15
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New York state has pledged to fund the installation of a $150 million nitrogen-removal system at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which will reduce the environmental harm of the sewage the plant discharges into Nassau County’s Western Bays, state and county officials said on Feb. 12. The officials, speaking at a Mineola news conference, also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $550 million more to build an outfall pipe to carry effluent from Bay Park into the Atlantic Ocean.
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By Brian Racow
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2/13/15
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A company’s plans to build “Port Ambrose,” a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 19 miles southeast of Jones Beach, have stalled for months in a federal review process, but that is likely to change next month. A U.S. Coast Guard official estimated that the government will release a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Port Ambrose in December.
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By Brian Racow
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11/5/14
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