Enterprise Park at Calverton

In making decisions about how to handle groundwater pollution in areas outside the former Naval installation in Calverton, the Navy will continue to rely on a federal health advisory level for PFAS that the EPA abandoned in June because it did not protect human health. No additional drinking water sampling is planned, a Navy project manager said this week.

The joint IDA benefits application of Calverton Aviation & Technology and the Riverhead Community Development Agency for the development of the Calverton Enterprise Park has been made public by the Riverhead Industrial Development Agency.

A State Supreme Court judge in Albany County has sided with the Town of Riverhead in a decade-old lawsuit challenging regulations adopted by the State DEC in 2010 to protect endangered species. The court ruled on Feb. 18 the new regulations are null and void because the Department of Environmental Conservation failed to hold a public hearing prior to adopting them.

Ever since the crash-landing of Sean Walter's Bezos-like trip into aerospace with Luminati, his successors on the town board have found themselves in bed with the Ghermezians but not getting much sleep.

Residents near the former Grumman facility in Calverton who rely on private wells are worried about storm-damaged vehicle storage on a runway there as they anxiously await word on federal funding for water main extensions to serve their neighborhood, where some wells are polluted by various contaminants.

The timing is unusual, in that the referral to the planning commission would typically have been made prior to the town planning board granting preliminary approval for the subdivision of land at the Calverton Enterprise Park.

Riverhead Town has scheduled a regular town board meeting and a CDA meeting Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. There will be no in-person public access to the meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Guest column: The plan proposed by Triple Five for the Calverton Enterprise Park promises the kind of jobs our region needs to sustain its economy into the 21st century.

Aeronautical engineer Daniel Preston has plans to return the Long Island aerospace industry to its former place of glory from the Calverton site that was once its epicenter.

Despite members still having lots of questions about the unusual plan, novel zoning concept and out-of-the-ordinary process, the Riverhead Planning Board last night gave its "non-binding" blessing to a concept plan for the subdivision of 2,234 town-owned acres in the Enterprise Park at Calverton