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Residents and officials of the Sea Cliff district of New York American Water visited the Jericho Water District to discuss the feasibility of consolidating services.

Sea Cliff, Glen Head civics talk consolidation with Jericho Water

Last week, water ratepayers from the Sea Cliff district attended a board meeting of the Jericho Water District to plead a case for consolidation. Their purpose was to see if Jericho Water would be … more

By Alyssa Seidman | 2/15/18

The 225-foot-tall West Hempstead water tower, which has served the community since 1939, will be replaced either this year or next, at a cost of $6.9 million.

A new water tower for West Hempstead

“It’s not going to be an easy day when it comes down,” West Hempstead Water District Supervisor Robert York said of the 225-foot-tall water tower on the water district’s 27-acre property. “This is a very unusual tank — you don’t see these on Long Island anymore. This is the last one.” more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 5/4/17

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

By Rossana Weitekamp | 2/28/17

Claudia Borecky, second from left, president of the North Merrick Civic Association, and David Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, led a news conference last Thursday to urge the State Department of Environmental Conservation to take over cleanup of an underground chemical plume caused by Grumman and the Navy. They were joined by Dr. Dean Hart, of Brookville, and Audrey Ciuffo and David Stonehill, both of Merrick.

A widening toxic threat

A half-dozen Nassau County environmental and civic activists, most from Merrick, came to Bethpage Community Park on April 21 –– the day before Earth Day –– to call on the state to accelerate efforts to clean up a massive chemical plume that has crept for more than seven decades from Bethpage toward South Oyster Bay. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/25/16

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer presented a ceremonial $3.3 million check to South Farmingdale Water District commissioners, from left, John Hirt, Ralph Atoria and Gary Brosnan to reimburse the construction costs of a water treatment plant in northern Seaford.

Navy pays up

In the same spot he stood eight months ago, calling on the U.S. Navy to pay for the construction of a water treatment plant in northern Seaford, Sen. Charles Schumer announced victory last Friday morning. more

By Andrew Hackmack | 5/6/15

Engineer Alison Auriemmo, along with South Farmingdale Water Commissioners John Hirt, far left, and Ralph Atoria, showed Schumer the plant.

‘Hand over the check’

Residents of northern Seaford will soon be ensured safe drinking water, even as a toxic underground plume from the former Grumman property in Bethpage moves south. Those residents could be saddled with extra costs for that clean water, however, if the Navy doesn’t come through with a $5 million payment owed to the South Farmingdale Water District. more

By Andrew Hackmack | 9/10/14

Why New York state must maintain a balance of power

When our Founding Fathers sat down to create the Constitution, they decided it would be best to devise a system of checks and balances in order to guard the people against tyranny. more

3/6/14

Keep Weitzman as county comptroller

While Nassau County residents are paying some of the highest taxes in the nation, Comptroller Howard Weitzman has done his part to ease the burden somewhat. During the past eight years Weitzman has shown that he is a competent financial watchdog, and has looked for savings in places no one before him ever tried. more

10/15/09

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