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VOL. 33 NO. 27
une YOUR OFFICIAL HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER
July 9-July 15,1999 40 CENTS
TOPS OF THE TAPS
Bethpage Water Wins Big As Best fasting Water On All
Of Long Island
In a tap-to-tap taste off, tap
water provided by the Bethpage
Water District was recently declared
the best tasting on Long Island,
defeating the Suffolk County Water
Authority.
Both public water suppliers took
their county titles in the 1999 Best
Tasting Tap Water Contest,
sponsored this past May by the
Long Island Water Conference,
when hundreds of shoppers at the
Walt Whitman and Broadway malls
sampled water from Nassau-
Suffolk's public water supply in a
blind taste test.
The contest to select the Long
Island champion was judged by
Nassau County Legislator Edward
Mangano, Suffolk County Legislator
Angie Carpenter and New York
State Senator Carl Marcellino at the
Weeping Willow Restaurant in
Farmingdale.
"Although the Bethpage Water
District takes home the title and
prestige] Long Islanders are the
true winners. We are very fortunate
to have some of the best tap water
in the nation," said LIWC
Chairperson Paul Granger.
The Bethpage Water District
and Suffolk County Water Authority
will go ofi to represent their
respective counties in the statewide
taste contest, which will be held
later this^ summer.
The Long Island Water
Conference, established in 1951
a professional organization
dedicate^ to providing and
maintaining a pure and plentiful
public water supply on Long Island
Members^ include Nassau-Suffolk's
public water suppliers, consulting
engineers, attorneys, water
contractors and officials from
governmental regulatory agencies.
is
Sweating. Overheated.
Exhausted and Cranky. All four
words describing most of us as
Long Islanders has found itself
smack in the middle of an
unrelenting heat wave.
Temperatures in Bethpage reached
a whopping 100° and in
neighboring areas reached over
102°. Those who were forced to
brave the elements outside found
themselves drenched in sweat and
(Continued on page 4)
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| Title | Bethpage-Tribune_1999-07-09 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within Bethpage, Old Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge and Seaford. |
| Creator | Florence Cullem |
| Publisher | Florence Cullem |
| Contributors | Scanned and Prepared by Hudson Microimaging, Port Ewen, New York 12466. |
| Date | 2010 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Bethpage Public Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | The Newspaper is in the public Domain and Digital Rights Held by Bethpage Public Library. |
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