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75th Year, No. 49 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Freeport
boats on
parade
HOLIDAY FUN IN FREEPORT: At
left, Frank Rizzo, captain of the Miss Freeport V, poses witli friends. Below, Freeporters celebrate the holiday season with festive decorations on honnes and boats during the Freeport Chamber of Commerce's annual holiday boat parade.
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County starts trneking sludge through Freeport, Baldwin
by Laura Schofer
The problems at the Bay Park sewage treatment plant could be solved with an infusion of federal cash, but in the meantime up to 80,000 gallons of sludge will be trucked to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Seaford each day until further notice.
It is one of several short term measures the county is taking to correct the amount of settable solids now flowing into Reynolds Channel.
The Bay Park plant in East Rockaway has been in violation of
state law for releasing excessive suspended solids into the Western Bays. This has resulted in a visible brown colored plume emanating from the outfall pipe for the last several months.
The county has said it will correct the problems, but it will take lots of money to make the substantial upgrades needed for odor control,. nitrogen reduction and chlorine reduction. They also need to construct a new sludge thickener, costing approximately $10 million, which will address the current discharge problem.. Meanwhile, $20 million owed to
Nassau County for two decades remains bottlenecked in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer renewed his call on Novemeber 30 for the Environmental Protection Agency to reimburse the county for over $20 million in federal sewer construction funds awarded in the 1980s for upgrades at the county's two sewage treatment plants -Bay Park and Cedar Creek.
"The EPA must immediately refund the money to Nassau County to allow it to fund emergency repairs to the Bay Park sewage treatment facility," said Senator Schumer in a news release.
The EPA Region 2, which covers Long Island, has issued an opinion that the county should be reimbursed. In May, Senator Schumer met with County Executive Edward Mangano to press the EPA to release the funds. The EPA agreed to re-open negotiations, but no decision has yet been made.
"We're hopeful the money will be freed up. It's 30 years overdue," said Rob Weltner, executive director of Operation SPLASH.
"I'd love to see it," said county Legislator David Denenberg. "It would be great...if the county ever gets the money."
Freeport's new top cop
page 3
More Freeport favorite places
page 7
Freeport cheerleaders to Nationals
page 10
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| Title | The-Leader_2010-12-09 |
| 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 | 2010 |
| 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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