Riverhead Sewage Treatment Plant

The project calls for the installation of an innovative process at the district’s waste treatment facility on River Avenue that will reduce the total volume of dehydrated sludge produced at the plant — and that, in turn, will reduce the district's ever-increasing cost of transporting it to a Pennsylvania landfill for disposal.

Suffolk County has sued the Town of Riverhead over sewer rates established earlier this year for out-of-town users — which the county says is targeted at its facilities in Riverside.

The town board is considering a $7 million project that would provide the ability to turn sewage sludge into “Class A Biosolids” suitable for land application by farmers, growers, nurserymen and homeowners.

The Water Environment Federation, a nonprofit technical and educational organization representing water quality professionals around the world, has honored Riverhead with a project excellence award this year for its state-of-the-art treatment and reuse facility that irrigates the adjacent county golf course.

At issue is the right to payment from a special fund administered by the county that’s intended to stabilize sewer district assessments and taxes in Suffolk. The fund's source of revenue is a quarter-percent sales tax authorized by state law.

Riverhead’s sewage treatment plant upgrade and the innovative wastewater reuse partnership with the county golf course garnered accolades yesterday from a high-ranking federal Environmental...

A “precautionary advisory” will remain in effect in the tidal portion of the Peconic River until further notice, Suffolk County health officials announced yesterday...

Residents should avoid contact with the Peconic River in downtown Riverhead due to a potentially unsafe discharge of sewage wastewater, according to county health officials.

Riverhead officials are moving forward on the idea of sewering the South Jamesport area, first proposed by Supervisor Sean Walter last month following the...

County Executive Steve Bellone called a press conference on the shore of the Peconic River in Riverhead to say the health of the Peconic Estuary needs federal aid in order to be restored.