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Vol. 31 No. 15
APRIl 7 - 13, 2022
Stepping up to replace septic systems Benefits S.C., Glenwood Landing health. The County Le gislature voted a month ago to allocate $2 Nitrogen pollution from cess- million in grant funding to SEPpools and septic sysTIC. The incentive tems is the No. 1 was meant to e n e my o f w at e r encourage homequality on Long owners and small Island, including on businesses to particthe North Shore. ipate in the proAccording to gram by offering Nassau County’s grants of up to Septic Environmen$20,000 to replace tal Program to existing septic sysImprove Cleanlitems that are outness, or SEPTIC, dated or no longer these traditional properly filtering sewage systems are wastewater. not designed to filLegislator Delia ter nitro g en. So DeRiggi-Whitton, of nitrogen has been Glen Cove, has been absorbed by the a vocal advocate of ground and seeped DElIA DERIGGIthe program. Her into the bays, caus11th district, she ing elevated bacteri- WHITToN said, which includes al levels, restric- Nassau County Sea Cliff, Glenwood tions on shell fish- legislator Landing and Glen ing, toxic algae blosCove, encompasses soms and massive most of the remainfish kills. As summer approach- ing 10 percent of the county that es and beaches and marinas does not have sewers. open to the public, reducing bac“It’s a really big program for terial levels becomes the focus my district, probably more than of efforts to protect the environ- any legislator,” DeRiggi-Whitment, and the community’s Continued on page 4
By lETISHA DASS ldass@liherald.com Courtesy Bruce Kennedy
I will serve Several residents volunteered on Monday to be part of the Village of Sea Cliff board of trustees or members of the many committees. The room at Village Hall was filled to capacity with volunteers and well-wishers. More photos, Page 3.
Water authority to begin buying out Liberty Utilities
Plan is to sell municipal bonds, not raise taxes By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
For years, the residents of Sea Cliff, a large section of Glen Head and parts of Glen Cove, Glenwood Landing, Old Brookville and Roslyn Harbor have had to pay a pretty penny for their water. Now, with the creation of the North Shore Water Authority, their local gov-
ernments should be able to solve that problem. The af fected areas were served by New York American Water, a private company that was criticized for many years by customers and public officials for its high rates, what they said were unfair rate hikes and its quality of service. The situation became so bad that residents of several towns banded together to
form North Shore Concerned Citizens, a group which ultimately convinced local authorities to take the matter to court. After two years of litigation, the Village of Sea Cliff settled a legal suit in 2019 that required NYAW’s parent company, American Water Works Co., to sell its New York operation. The settlement came with the understandContinued on page 8
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t’s really important to do everything we can to not only locate the septic systems, but see if they’re working correctly.