Calverton

The Riverhead Planning Board will begin the environmental review process Thursday evening on a 131-acre industrial subdivision in Calverton, immediately west of Splish Splash Water Park.

Riverhead Town's former landfill site on Youngs Avenue in Calverton is again being eyed for a possible solar energy facility.

Riverhead Town has come up short on federal and state funding requests to cover two water district extensions to serve homes in Manorville and Calverton in the vicinity of the former Northrop Grumman facility in Calverton.

A national real estate developer has purchased a 37-acre site on Middle Road in Calverton with plans to develop it with a logistics center. The site is being advertised by a regional real estate agency as a 640,000-square-foot industrial warehouse space.

Riverhead is seeking grant funding from New York State to help the Riverhead Water District provide public water to an area of Calverton near the terminus of the Long Island Expressway where health-threatening contaminants have been identified in private drinking water wells.

Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar said today she would support making an unused airstrip at the Enterprise Park in Calverton a permanent site for racing. 

Former Riverhead Councilwoman Barbara Blass of Jamesport told the town board the record in the application of the major solar energy project approved by the state last month is "another embarrassment for the town" because a "dereliction of duty...has once again, shortchanged the people of Riverhead."

The Riverhead Planning Board last night granted preliminary site plan approval to the proposed Calverton Solar Energy Center, a 22.9 megawatt commercial solar energy production facility to be built on approximately 198 acres off Edwards Avenue in Calverton.

Navy representatives will discuss their investigation into groundwater contamination on and near the former Grumman manufacturing facility in Calverton during a virtual meeting of the Calverton restoration advisory board Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m.

The town is faced with a gnarly decision, but everything about this application has been gnarly right for the beginning. Here's why.