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$99M sewage project for L.B. Will end huge daily flow of effluent into Reynolds Channel for Long Beach’s 1950s-era sewage treatment plant, at National Boulevard and Pine Street, to be Long Beach is about to converted into a pumping staembark on the most ambitious tion. Waste will be pumped environmental projects in the about a mile under Reynolds city in a generation — redirect- Channel to the Bay Park Water ing about 5 million gallons of Reclamation Facility in East ef fluent per day Ro c k aw ay. T h a t from Reynolds plant is being Channel, where it upgraded to filter has been pumped for out nitrogen. decades, into the Currently, about 5 Atlantic Ocean, with million gallons of the help of state and waste are pumped federal contracts into Reynolds Chantotaling $99 million. nel from Long Beach The project is every day. something Long From Bay Park, Beach residents Febrizio said, the have called for at wastewater will be public meetings for pumped through a JoE FEBRIzIo years. pipe under Sunrise Joe Febrizio, the Commissioner, H i g h w ay t o t h e city’s commissioner Long Beach Cedar Creek Water of public works, said Public Works Pollution Control earlier this week Plant in Wantagh. that he had been From there it will be notified a week ago that the Fed- directed out into the ocean. The eral Emergency Management routing from Bay Park is a sepaAgency would provide Long rate $500 million project, under Beach with $74 million in haz- the jurisdiction of the Nassau ard-mitigation funding. In addi- County Department of Public tion, Febrizio said, New York Works, which is currently under state had previously agreed to way. provide the city with $25 million “I would say that … this is the for the same purpose. largest environmental project we Febrizio said that plans call Continued on page 14
By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
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GATHERING oRGANIzERS AND sanitation workers, from left, the Revs. Mark Moses and Susan Bock, sanitation driver Jeorking Welker and Vera Taylor, a volunteer for the day.
City’s ‘unsung heroes’ honored Sanitation workers treated to food and gifts By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
On April 3, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. He was assassinated the next day. On Monday, the 54th anniversary of King’s assassination, representatives of two Long Beach churches — St. James-Jerusalem Episcopal and New Life Church of Christ — visited the city’s Sanitation Department to offer the workers sandwiches, drinks, snacks, dessert and gifts, honoring King’s memory and the work he did on behalf of the Memphis
workers. Barbara Horn, a member of St. JamesJerusalem and one of the organizers of the get-together, called the Long Beach sanitation workers “the unsung heroes” of the city. “It’s fitting, because he was fighting for sanitation workers before he died,” Horn said of King. “They’re all so hard-working, and keep the entire city clean.” About 30 workers and drivers attended, starting at 11 a.m. In addition to the food, they were presented with index cards imprinted with King’s quotes. There were also signs with photos of King and descripContinued on page 9
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