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The Nassau County Legislature approved more than $3 million in contracts on Jan. 10 for new equipment and upgrades at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, in an effort to end months of illegal sewage discharge into Reynolds Channel, which many residents and local officials have called a serious environmental health hazard.
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By Chris Engelhardt
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1/26/11
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Trucking of raw sewage from Nassau County’s Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to a pumping station on Merrick Road in Merrick is continuing as the county works to fix mechanical problems at the Bay Park plant, said Bill Fonda, a state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman, in an interview on Thursday.
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David Weingrad
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1/6/11
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Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Nassau County Department of Public Works is trucking up to 80,000 gallons of raw sewage each day from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway through Baldwin and Freeport to a red brick pumping station in Merrick.
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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12/17/10
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The smells issuing from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant are just one of the concerns of nearby residents. Community members are urging county officials to come up with a long-term solutions for not only the odors at the facility, but also the problems with its discharge
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Clarissa Hamlin
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11/10/10
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Suddenly, I was captivated by the darkness below on a steamy August day. I could only stare as tiny gray pill bugs crept up from the recesses of the decaying leaf pile. Then I noticed an earthworm slithering to the surface and looping back to the underworld. This place was alive.
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Scott Brinton
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8/20/10
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I threw some golf balls into a toilet bowl and flushed. Then I watched as they all came out, intact, into a bucket, after one swirling, effective push of the handle.
This was just one of the highlights of the Responsible Bathroom Water Conservation Tour, a national mobile marketing campaign on wheels that arrived at C&L Plumbing Supply at 196 Merrick Rd. in Lynbrook on July 14 to help raise awareness about water conservation.
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Mary Malloy
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7/21/10
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It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/14/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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It was, for me, what Henry David Thoreau might call a transcendent moment, when the world suddenly turned still and time seemed to slow.
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Scott Brinton
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4/8/10
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Q. I listen to radio talk shows, and John Gambling was going on about LEED-certified homes and how he doesn’t believe in global warming. What does LEED mean and how do you get it? Does it help to have it?
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Monte Leeper
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1/21/10
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