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VOL. 30 NO. 39
SEPTEMBER 23 - 29, 2021
Weeks later, N.S. recovers from Ida Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton, who represents the 11th Legislative District, including Weeks after the torrential much of the North Shore. rain stopped, residents are still “Everything we had in place dealing with the lasting effects didn’t stand a chance.” of Hurricane Ida, the storm that There are no final estimates produced record rainfall along yet on the extent of the property parts of the North Shore earlier damage the storm caused, but this month. Some of hundreds of homes the highest rain were damaged. totals from the remAccuWeather estinants of the storm mated that Ida’s were in Sea Cliff overall economic a n d G l e n C o ve, impact would be $95 where streets looked billion, making it like rivers and a the seventh-costliest number of residenchurricane to hit the es and businesses U.S. since 2000. The sustained extensive estimate takes into structural damage account property from the flooding. damages, the impact As the stor m of lost work as well moved nor theast JOYCE as a drop in tourafter making land- BARONDESS ism. fall in Louisiana as Sea Cliff The Red Cross a Category 4 hurrisaid it housed nearcane, three to eight ly 400 people in teminches of rain or more was porary shelters in New York, reported across the metropoli- New Jersey and Pennsylvania tan area. The North Shore saw the night of Sept. 2. some of the worst of it, with “It is rare for a hurricane nine inches of rain in parts of from the Gulf of Mexico to proGlen Cove. duce this much damage this far “We received nine inches of north,” AccuWeather CEO Joel rain from ten o’clock to two Myers said. He noted that the o’clock in the morning” on Sept. 2 and 3, said Nassau County CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
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Courtesy Love Your Neighbor Project
Creating art with heart The Sea Cliff-based Love Your Neighbor Project continues to spread the love. North Shore students painted a canvas at Sept. 12’s VAXapalooza, and the nonprofit is co-hosting an art auction fundraiser with the Sea Cliff Arts Council on Saturday at 5 p.m. at K.DiResta Collective.
NYAW updates Glen Head water treatment facility BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
New York American Water lifted two massive granular-activated carbon vessels into place at the updated treatment facility under construction at the Glen Head well site on Sept. 16. The carbon treatment system is being installed to address emerging contaminants PFOA and
PFOS. The treatment system contains granular-activated carbon filters, and when the water is pumped, it will run through the filters, absorbing the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) contaminants in the water before it is sent into the distribution system. The Glen Head site will house four large
tanks filled with about 20,000 pounds of carbon in each tank. “We just got the tanks delivered to the site, and the guys are out there doing all the piping connections now,” John Kilpatrick, manager of engineering at NYAW, said. “The other project to get finished at the site is a building around the tanks so there’s no freeze risks during the CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
’m still devastated by over five feet of water in my basement thanks to Ida.