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Filtration tanks just like these, on Chautauqua Avenue in Lakeview, will be housed in a pre-engineered metal building and will be part of Iron Removal Plant #23 in Malverne.

After hearing, Malverne moves closer to new iron removal plant

At a special exception hearing last week, the Village of Malverne gave a green light to New York American Water’s plans to file for a permit and begin construction of Iron Removal Plant #23, on Cornwell Avenue. It was the fourth meeting the water company has had with village officials and residents about the plant’s construction. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 6/14/16

Groups of kayakers made their way across the bay to Hewlett Point Beach

Kayaking in Bay Park

On a beautiful, warm, sunny morning, dozens of kayakers and paddle boarders took a short trip from Bay County Park to Hewlett Point Beach and back last Saturday for the inaugural launch of the South … more

By Courtney McGee | 6/8/16

Let’s hope county’s plan isn’t just a pipe dream

“The long-term sustainability of Reynolds Channel and our surrounding bays is a pressing environmental concern . . ." more

6/1/16

A drinking fountain at the Maurice W. Downing School tested positive for elevated lead levels. Four bathroom sink faucets in the district also had levels above the EPA limit. School officials said they are confident they have rectified the situation.

Lead found in Malverne school district’s water

The Malverne school district reported last week that lead had been found in water coming from a drinking fountain at the Maurice W. Downing School and four bathroom sink faucets around the school district. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 5/26/16

Nassau County has sent treated sewage into Reynolds Channel and the Western Bays since the late 1940s. A new county plan to divert the effluent to an ocean outfall pipe would end the practice, which would improve water quality in the bays, environmental experts say. Above, a view of the bays from the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick. Photo by Scott Brinton/Herald

County's pipe dream moving forward

Nassau County is looking to divert tens of millions of gallons of treated sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to the ocean outfall pipe at the Cedar Creek plant on the … more

By Scott Brinton, Nick Ciccone, Andrew Hackmack and Laura Schofer | 5/20/16

Leonard Albert with his $4,000 whole-house water filter, which he installed last year at the recommendation of New York American Water.

For clean water, couple spent $8,000

For the past two years, Leonard Albert, 74, and his wife, Therese, had been noticing a pattern. The couple, Malverne residents for over 40 years, had been developing a skin rash — red skin accompanied by bumps on their legs, backs, chests, feet and elsewhere. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 4/26/16

Claudia Borecky, second from left, president of the North Merrick Civic Association, and David Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, led a news conference last Thursday to urge the State Department of Environmental Conservation to take over cleanup of an underground chemical plume caused by Grumman and the Navy. They were joined by Dr. Dean Hart, of Brookville, and Audrey Ciuffo and David Stonehill, both of Merrick.

A widening toxic threat

A half-dozen Nassau County environmental and civic activists, most from Merrick, came to Bethpage Community Park on April 21 –– the day before Earth Day –– to call on the state to accelerate efforts to clean up a massive chemical plume that has crept for more than seven decades from Bethpage toward South Oyster Bay. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/25/16

Lakeview’s brown water problem becomes public

At the beginning of the year, County Legislator Siela Bynoe was getting a handful of complaints from Lakeview residents about discolored water. So she started going to different community meetings and asking people if they were having the same problem. “Residents would ask me, ‘How did you know?’” Bynoe recounted. “They thought it was an internal issue within their own home.” more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 4/13/16

Grumman’s toxic mess must be fixed now

Environmentally speaking, the mid-20th century was a terrible time. Government and industry experimented with all manner of chemicals . . . more

4/7/16

State should mandate GMO labeling

Many American food corporations –– particularly the processed food corporations –– want the federal government to usurp states’ rights. In particular, they want Congress to pass legislation . . . more

3/24/16

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