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Whether it’s a backyard pool, a municipal aquatic center or the ocean, opportunities to swim are endless on Long Island. That’s why the Town of Hempstead offers swimming lessons at its pools, to teach both skills and safety.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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8/4/15
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On Long Island, we worry about our water –– a lot. After all, it comes from a series of sole-source aquifers, stores of ancient water buried deep underground that are recharged not by rivers and lakes, but by rainwater alone.
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7/29/15
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Pope Francis issued an encyclical last month that focuses on our responsibility for and connections to the environment and the poor. I’ve only read the first half of “Laudato Si’" . . .
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7/1/15
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Gary Smith, of Wantagh, is a man on a mission. As co-chair of the Wantagh branch of Operation SPLASH, he works with his 50 or so active volunteers to clean debris and monitor waterfront pollution in the most easterly section of the Western Bays — Wantagh, Seaford, Bellmore and Merrick.
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By Laura Schofer
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6/18/15
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American Water announced in a press release last week that Brian Bruce has been appointed president of New York American Water.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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6/17/15
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Officials from United Water provided residents with a status report on the workings of the Cedar Creek Water Treatment Plant at a public meeting on June 2. Dan Ryan, plant manager, told residents the sewage treatment plant has had no violations to its SPDES, or state pollutant discharge elimination system, permit this year.
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By Laura Schofer
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6/15/15
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The cleanup of the toxic Navy Grumman plume, which has threatened public water supplies in many Nassau County communities, including Seaford, has taken another step forward.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/20/15
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In the same spot he stood eight months ago, calling on the U.S. Navy to pay for the construction of a water treatment plant in northern Seaford, Sen. Charles Schumer announced victory last Friday morning.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/6/15
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In 1970, Americans finally awoke to the horrifying toll they were taking on our fragile environment. That year, Congress passed the Clean Air Act . . .
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4/23/15
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New York state has pledged to fund the installation of a $150 million nitrogen-removal system at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which will reduce the environmental harm of the sewage the plant discharges into Nassau County’s Western Bays, state and county officials said on Feb. 12. The officials, speaking at a Mineola news conference, also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $550 million more to build an outfall pipe to carry effluent from Bay Park into the Atlantic Ocean.
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By Brian Racow
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2/13/15
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