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Water remediation begins at village wells
THE BOYS OF FALL
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Although the regular football season was cancelled this year, the Garden City Thunder teams have been able to enjoy non-contact practices and intra-team flag football games, with fresh air, fun and friends. See pages 64-65
Garden City schools develop district-wide literacy curriculum BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At the Board of Education work session held on Wednesday, November 4, the Garden City Union Free school district presented an overview of innovations in reading instruction and assessments taking place this year. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha spoke about turning a corner with the
integration of “concrete data” analysis for literacy, saying that educators will work to create a system for reading comprehension data collection. She also introduced a new administrative/educational Literacy booklet. “I think it’s critical for us to go back each academic year and at the individual school level, and to do so in a very systematic way. We can pres-
ent our reports using info from our local (district) data -- having our district booklet exist as a living (evolving) document is really going to help us,” Dr. Sinha said. Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction Dr. Edward Cannone spoke about the tremendous amount of literacy professional development that Garden City See page 40
During its first meeting since the beginning of the pandemic Garden City’s Environmental Advisory Board heard a report by Superintendent of Public Works Joseph DiFrancisco about operation and regulation of residential water wells. The Village of Garden City has begun remediating the contaminant 1,4 dioxane which has been found in water supplies throughout Long Island. Garden City is the only “water purveyor” on Long Island for which 100% of the water wells need treatment for emerging contaminants such as 1,4 dioxane. Garden City is required to put AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process) systems at every one of its 10 village water well sites. With new state standards going into effect, 1 part per billion is the new New York State standard as a maximum allowable contaminant level (MCL) for 1,4 dioxane. “The Water Authority of Western Nassau has over 20 wells, and about 13 of them need treatment for emerging contaminants. The Village of West Hempstead has three wells but only one of theirs needs treatment. Contaminant 1,4 dioxane, a man-made chemical, is just spread out through all the village’s wells, not necessarily indicating the contaminant levels at each are the highest in the region, and I think it has much to do with Garden City’s geography. It is almost like a contaminated plume, the way this spread appears,” Superintendent DiFrancisco said. With more inspections continuing this year, as of November the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has over 30 groundwater supply monitoring wells dug throughout the Village of Garden City. As of October 28, the new AOP systems were fully installed at two village sites which house three wells. The Village of Garden City has been working with the Nassau County Health Department to obtain approvSee page 48
Local election results In this week’s elections, Long Island voters reelected US Congresswoman Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) with 147,425 votes. She ran against Douglas Tuman, who received 134,225 votes. Incumbent State Senator Kevin Thomas (D) was defeated by Dennis Dunne (R) 64,509 to 56,672. Incumbent State Assemblyman Edward Ra (R) beat challenger Gary Port (D) 33,177 to 18,810. (Unofficial results from Wednesday night. Totals may change as absentee ballots are counted.)
Evensong for nation rescheduled to Sunday PAGE 12 Chef honored for feeding first responders PAGE 22