Riverhead Water District

With the high heat and lack of rainfall, the water district, which is pumping just under 20 million gallons per day, is “running everything full tilt,” the supervisor said.

The cost of a treatment system to remove the contaminant perchlorate from the town's newest public water well has risen to $740,000

The Riverhead Water District will conduct the annual spring flushing of its water mains now through May 10. Here's what to do if your water looks discolored. Plus instructions for flushing the pipes in your own home.

Facilities required to remove the contaminant perchlorate from Riverhead Water District’s well 16, one of the district's newest facilities, has a price tag of more than half a million dollars. The town board approved the $522,500 project budget and awarded a $279,516 bid last night.

The $2.2 million well 16 in Calverton, a critical supply well completed in 2011, needs treatment system that will cost Riverhead up to $555,000. A public hearing on the expenditure is scheduled for Jan. 6 at 2:10 p.m.

Jamesport firefighters made a quick stop of a raging fire at a Sound-front condominium complex, thanks to tanker trucks from six area fire departments. The water supply from fire hydrants is inadequate, Jamesport fire chief says.