Riverhead Water District

The water authority's request to Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen Kirsten Gillibrand includes funding to provide public water to Manorville homes in both Riverhead and Brookhaven towns, as well as funding for a pipeline to extend water from the Pine Barrens Region to the Town of Southold.

Rep. Lee Zeldin has requested roughly $14 million in federal funds to assist the Riverhead Water District and the Suffolk County Water Authority to bring public water to homes near the former Grumman manufacturing facility in Calverton.

Beginning on the evening of Sunday, April 18 and continuing for three weeks, the Riverhead Water District will be flushing out its system, cleaning its mains of any accumulated sediments.

Peconic Green Growth has donated $5,000 worth of irrigation equipment to the Riverhead Central School District for use at the district’s main campus, where the irrigation of athletic fields can consume more than 5 million gallons of water during the months of July through September.

The deferral, effective until August 2022, allows the Riverhead Water District additional time to comply with drinking water standards for certain "emerging contaminants" adopted by the state last year.

The Suffolk County Water Authority says it has “no desire” to stand in the way of economic development at the Calverton Enterprise Park — but it also has no intention of withdrawing its claim of right to serve the site with public water.

"We're not going to let the public be the pawns in a water battle." A decade-old dispute simmering just beneath the surface has come to a rolling boil and residents in a remote section of Manorville worry about getting caught up in a fight that could delay their community’s access to public water.

A 2009 letter from the Suffolk County Water Authority to the State DEC is 'disrupting the sale of the property at EPCAL,' the town board said in a letter to the water authority today.

Testing by the Suffolk County Department of Heath Services found PFOS, PFOA and a host of other contaminants in drinking water wells in Manorville south of the former Grumman facility.

Riverhead moved forward with hiring an environmental law firm based in San Francisco, California to sue manufacturers of chemical contaminants detected in one of its public water supply wells.