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Freeport goes back to
Coining clean on environmental bond
by Douglas Finlay
Last week's dismissal of a $150 million environmental bond issue before the Nassau County Legislature was due in part to environmental groups disagreeing on how to pay for a Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant outflow pipe to'the ocean, coupled with concern that' $150 million was too much to put • before county residents during this economic downturn.
The differences on how to pay for the sorely needed project in East Rockaway included a $150 million bond written by county Legislator Dave Denenbergand supp'orted by Stop Polluting Littering And Save the
Harbors (SPLASH), with $50 million as "up-front" good faith money to depict the serious intentions of the county to go forward with the Bay Park project; .or funding the project with capital funds separate from a less-intrusive $100 million bond proposal supported by the Campaign for Citizens of the Environment (CCE) and The Nature Conservancy, other environmental, groups.
Legislator Denenberg had asked for the $150 million bond - $100 million for saving open spaces and $50 million for the project - to address the urgently growing need to build an outflow pipe at the .Bay Park Sewage Plant in East Rockaway, a pipe similar to the
one at the Cedar Creek Sewage Plant in Wantagh that sends treated effliient two miles into the ocean through a pipe underneath South Oyster Bay.
At present. Bay Park treats its effluent and disperses it into the West Bay of Hempstead Bay, west of the Long Island railroad bridge into Long Beach, up to the Reynolds Channel outlet.
Nutrient, or nitrogen levels, have been measured several times above accepted limits, and the bay has been off-limits to shellfishermen for years as sea grasses grow unchecked from the elevated nutrient levels, killing sestin needed for shellfish to feed, for example.
Elevated nutrient levels also reduce
fish spawning grounds, as the higher levels reduce oxygen in the water. •
Gary Smith, president of the Bellmore chapter of SPLASH, told The Leader that during his attendance at the Tuesday, September 2,' legislative meeting he was surprised other environmental groups such as Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE) "weren't even there to support the bond and the Bay Park project." , Nor was the Nature Conservancy, an environmental group that also opposes the Bay Park project as part of ap environmental bond.
Kevin McDonald, director of public
lands for the Nature Conservancy of
Long Island, said he viewed the late (continued on page 2)
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| Title | The-Leader_2008-09-11 |
| 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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