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Welcome to The leader's Holiday Issue!
Celebrate at Old Betlipage...pi9e
70th Year, No. 46 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, November 17, 20O€ 5\©4
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BALDWIN'S CORAL HOUSE in a snowfall last winter is emblennatic of the holiday magic in our towns. Below, more
festive ornaments brighten up the area. Nutcracker courtesy of Atlantic Nursery
Splash's estuaryi'-campaign
Robert Weltner, president of the Freeport-based grassroots organization Stop Polluting, Littering And Save Harbors (SPLASH), has told The Leader that the latest New York State grant of. $6.65 million slated for South Shore Estuary improvements to eliminate pollutants into estuary waters and restore warm-water fisheries in ponds will not help its latest campaign to get a three-mile outflow pipe built from the Bay Park sewage treatment plant in East Rockaway into the Atlantic Ocean, thereby restoring marine life in the west end of Hempstead. Bay.
"Our project is a little more specific than the several smaller projects the grant will provide for," Mr. Weltner said, so "it will do little or nothing at all for us in trying to help the bay."
He said there are 80 million gallons of. effluent being discharged into the West Bay daily from several small sewage •plants, and that the effluent is heading east into Middle Bay and East Bay, and will eventually kill off marine life as it has in the West Bay.
There are 54 licensed shellfishermen in
the Town of Hempstead who provide several thousand bushels of clams yearly to restaurants, which helps increase their bottom lines and generates other economic activity.
"Someone from the Environmental Protection Agency was at a recent SPLASH meeting and told us that there is too much nutrient being flushed into the bay from several sources," Mr. Weltner continued. "The nutrient has enabled eel grass to grow at the expense of other marine life, and has killed much of that marine life off."
But Jeffrey Fullmer, president of the South Shore Estuary Council, disagreed with Mr. Weltner's comment, saying instead that the South Shore Estuary grant would provide over $1 million to upgrade an existing sewage plant in Lawrence to remove ammonia and chlorine presently being discharged into the bay. Chlorine and ammonia kill off the microscopic aquatic food needed to sustain marine life.
Mr. Weltner argues, however, that any ammonia and chlorine being discharged into a body of water should be discharged
into the Atlantic Ocean at least three miles out.
According to a bulletin released by SPLASH, the Cedar Creek outflow pipe "empties into the Atlantic Ocean barely two miles offshore."
He said the discharge creates
a sinkhole at the sight of the
discharge, enabling the
body of chlorine dis-
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| Title | The-Leader_2005-11-17 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2005 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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