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environmentalists clash aver bond
by Laura'Schofer ;
..While local environmentalists agree that we need to make Long Island a cleaner and healthier place to live, they can't seem to agree on how that can be accomplished in a judicious and economically viable way. -
In August, county Legislator David Denenberg, . chairman of the Legislature's Planning and
Environmental. Conunittee, unveiled a plan to fund another environmental bond issue in the amount of $150 million. -
The bond would set aside $100. million for acquisition of open space, brownfield remediation and stormwater and park improvements.
' The remaining $50 million would provide funds toward building an ocean
outflow pipe from the Bay Park sewage treatment facility, as well as make iniprovements.to Nassau County's Cedar Creek plant to limit nid'ogen output and other pollutants going into the water. . "The 2008 bond would cost taxpayers another $15 per year per household once all the money is spent. Presently taxpayers are spending about $20 per year per household for the 2004 and 2006. environmental bonds," said Mr. Denenberg.
The county Legislature held a hearing on Tuesday, September 2, oh the environmental bond and was scheduled to vote on. September 3 on whether to place the bond on the November ballot. The result of that vote was not known prior to press time.
Meanwhile the Republican minority
in the Legislature, as well as a host of environmental groups, said this is not the time to ask taxpayers to pay $50 mil-. lion for an outflow pipe and infrastructure improvenients diat should' be covered under, the county's capital projects budget. If an '08 environmental bond issueis placed, on the ballot,- it should remain at $100 million.
"I have always been a proponent for the environment and I believe my record shows this," said Republican Legislator Norma Gonsalves, lyho supported both the '04 and '06 environmental bonds. "But these are difficult economic times and we can't ask the people to pay for a project that belongs as a capital project," she added.
Mr. Denenberg disagrees: "$50 million is half our [annual] capital budget.
-We need money to go towards protecting the South Shore estuary. Everyone already knows that stormwater and sewage effluent is the reason for beach closures. We must begin now."
On July 29 the Natural Resources Defense Council released its annual report stating that beach closings increased 21 percent from 2006 to 2007 in New York State, and beach closings on Long Island had increased by 60 percent since last year. New York ranks eighth worst in the nation in percent of days that exceeded health standards, according to the report.
The Bay Park sewage treatment plant, one of two sewage, treatment facil' ities that services Nassau County residents, dumps about 60 million gal-
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| Title | The-Leader_2008-09-04 |
| 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 | 2008 |
| 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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