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Timeline set for I.P. schools’ energy upgrade and ECG provided an update on the district’s comprehensive energy audit and gave a timeline At its December meeting, the for work. Construction on the disIsland Park Board of Education trict’s schools should begin over outlined the timeline to imple- the summer, pending approval by ment the district’s roughly $3 mil- State Education Department. lion Energy PerforConstruction should mance Contract, take about 12 to 18 approved by voters at months to complete, last May’s districtofficials said. wide budget and Officials also school board vote. s a i d t h e p ro j e c t The EPC will bring would improve stusolar energy to Lindents’ learning envicoln Orens Middle ronment by installSchool, significantly ing energy-efficient reducing Island LED lighting in classPark’s carbon footrooms, improving print, school officials brightness, while said. re d u c i n g e n e r g y VINCeNT “We are tr uly costs. Students would looking forward to raNDazzo also be engaged in a this project coming Superintendent variety of projects to to fruition and knowexplore energy effiing that improved ciency. lighting will have a positive Randazzo also gave an update impact on students in our class- on the November steam leak at rooms,” Schools Superintendent Lincoln Orens Middle School, Vincent Randazzo said. noting that the repair project was The EPC is a state-sponsored completed under budget. Howevprogram that allows school dis- er, following an electrical outage, tricts to upgrade their heating additional work was needed to and electrical systems without repair several electrical panels cost — and potentially savings — and breakers. All costs will be to taxpayers because of upgraded covered by the reserve fund. systems that run more efficiently. Representatives of Noresco
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Warming up the winter with song Students at Francis X. Hegarty School performed a number of musical selections during the school’s recent winter concert.
New York state to spend $1M on Gulf Oil cleanup in Oceanside By Tom Carrozza and mIKe SmollINS tcarrozza@liherald.com, msmollins@liherald.com
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced plans to spend more than $1 million to clean up the highly contaminated Gulf Oil site in Oceanside. After offering opportunities for public comment by Oceanside residents in March and April last year, the DEC issued
its management plan to monitor, maintain and report on cleanup of the site. Layers of soil, measuring six inches deep, will be added to the site to cover over and hold back the contamination. The site is part of the state’s Superfund Program, which identifies inactive hazardous waste disposal sites that may pose a significant threat to public health or the environment and uses state funds to clean them
up. The Oceanside site operated from 1932 until the 1990s as a petroleum storage terminal, with a dozen storage tanks. Three of the tanks were stored underground, holding fuel oil, kerosene and gasoline, and smaller tanks were used to service the site and its vehicles. All of the tanks were reportedly demolished by 2003. A remediation investigation Continued on page 11
e are truly looking forward to this project coming to fruition.