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The Roslyn Times, Friday, March 20, 2015
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Air stripper work to start in late spring BY B I LL S A N A N TON I O
Construction to a water purification tower known as an “air stripper” at a section of land within Christopher Morley Park will likely begin by late spring, a Roslyn Water District official said Tuesday. “By the time all the paperwork is in order and the contractors are ready to start, I think it’s probably the latter part of the spring,” Roslyn Water Superintendent Rich Passariello said. “We’re in the process of getting that all in place.” Passariello did not disclose the names of contractors with whom the district is
working on the project, as he said agreements for the work have not yet been finalized. The air stripper would remove from the district’s well along Diana’s Trail in the Village of Roslyn Estates the carcinogen Freon-22, which was discovered there during tests to the water in late 2013, and release emissions into the air. The well was taken out of operation that November when levels of the contaminant increased in concentration, though officials have said they have not approached unsafe levels. The project is being funded as part
of a $20.9 million capital bond that was approved by the North Hempstead Town Council in February 2014. A second well along Mineola Avenue in Roslyn Estates and another well located near the William Cullen Bryant Viaduct are also out of operation due to contamination, causing the water district to enact a water-rationing plan last summer throughout the district, which includes the five Roslyn-area villages and parts of North Hills, Greenvale, Albertson, Glenwood Landing and Port Washington. The Nassau County Legislature last summer approved a home-rule message
allowing land in the park to be transferred to New York State for approval to the Roslyn Water District. The project was then approved by the state Assembly and Senate prior to the end of the 2014 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in December. Upon receiving the county’s approval, the project was opposed by the Nassau County Green Party and later challenged in court by Roslyn residents Richard Brummel, Joshua Dicker and David Greengold, who have said the air stripper would lead to deforestation within the Continued on Page 47
Alleged Flower Hill robber, carjacker shot by police identified B y A dam L idgett The U.S. Attorney’s Office has identified Felquin Piedra, 41, of Queens, as the man who was shot attempting to carjack a vehicle in Lake Success and said in a complaint that the attempted carjacking followed the robbery of a T-Mobile store in Flower Hills. Piedra, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, was located by law enforcement officials using a global positioning system tracker on one of the cell phones he stole
from the store. Piedra was charged with robbery, using a firearm in connection with a robbery and attempted carjacking stemming. He was arraigned last Monday in a bed at an unidentified hospital while recovering from being shot twice in the leg and once in the torso by a Lake Success police officer during the carjacking attempt, officials said. Piedra and an accomplice entered the T-Mobile at around 6:20 p.m. on March 4, tied up employees at the back of the store and stole an unidentified
amount of cell phones and cash before fleeing in an Acura, the complaint stated. Police tracked the alleged robbers using signals emitting from one of the cell phones in their possession, and officers shut down a portion of the Long Island Expressway as they approached Lakeville Road. Once on the expressway, Piedra got out of the driver’s seat and jumped off an overpass onto Lakeville Road, the complaint said. Piedra then allegedly ran through a private residence be-
fore entering the passenger side door of a van parked on Lakeville Road. He and the van’s driver then struggled for control of the vehicle, with Piedra eventually putting his leg over the center console to press down on the driver’s foot, trying to accelerate, the complaint said. Piedra tried to grab the van’s wheel and also grabbed the driver’s arm, resulting in several lacerations and bruises to the driver’s arm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Shortly after entering the
van, Piedra was shot by Lake Success officer Richard Petrillo, a 14-year veteran of the village department, officials said. It is unclear what happened to Piedra’s accomplice. The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A U.S. Attorney’s office representative declined to comment on why the case is being handled at the federal level. Lake Success police deferred comment to Nassau County police, who deferred comment to the FBI.
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