Editorial
Step it up, Suffolk: Lack of holding tank at Indian Island campground dump station just 300 feet from Sawmill Creek is...
Whatever is dumped into those cesspools buried in the sandy soils of near Saw Mill Creek will transit those 8 yards and reach the surface water in 0-2 years. Campers might just as well be invited to dump their wastes directly into the water.
Environment
County enters into consent judgment with U.S. Department of Justice to remove 46 illegal large-capacity cesspools at park facilities
Suffolk County has entered into a consent judgment with the U.S. Justice Department requiring the county to remove and replace 46 large-capacity cesspools at county park facilities, including four at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead that were banned by the EPA in 2005. The county also agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty.
News
County approves sanitary code change for advanced individual septic systems
The new code provision authorizes the first major change to residential wastewater treatment technology since 1973, when rules changed to require a septic tank in addition to a leaching pool.
