CULINARY PERFECTION IS COMING TO Sands New York

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one vessel and then goes through another treatment vessel after that,” Kilpatrick added. “So even when the carbon gets saturated we’ll know ahead of time and we’ll be able to change it so we’ll always be able to change it to ensure we’re providing water back to the distribution system that doesn’t have any levels of PFO’s in there.”

The new system can clean roughly two million gallons of water per day. Liberty will be monitoring the levels of perfluorooctyl sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid in the water system, and send monthly reports to the New York State Department of Health.

Kilpatrick added that the construction of the project also had to adhere to local requirements from stakeholders and residents so that the vessels wouldn’t be eyesores that ruined the aesthetics of the local community.

Agatha Nadel, a Glen Head resident who has been a long-time leader in the fight to communize the water district, said that while she appreciates the need to reduce the presence of forever chemicals in the water supply, the fact that it’s being done by a private company still comes with hidden costs for customers in the water district.

Nadel pointed out that with the pri- vate water model, all costs and expenses for projects like these also include a bottom line for profit, which will have to be footed by the customers. Because of this, customers in the water district will see the cost of their water bills, which she argues are already exorbitant, rise to cover the cost.

Nadel said that this is partly because, as a private water company, Liberty is unable to acquire state grants to offset the cost of the project.

Kilpatrick said this is something Liberty is working on to change.

With a public water district, Nadel argues, the focus will be to improve the quality of service in the district without taking extra money out of the pockets of customers.

“Anything being done by this private water is passed along to the ratepayers with a profit added into it,” Nadel explained. “It’s not coming out of their pockets. It’s coming out of ours.”

Kilpatrick confirmed that this would be the case. “Those water rates are made up of all of the capital and operational costs that we incur to run the district and to maintain all of the facilities that we have and to construct new facilities like this one to deal with new water quality regulations,” he added.