Bethpage-Tribune_1984-02-08

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VOL. 14 NO. 43 Week of February 2 - February 8,1984 20 cents per copy
No Water
The Oyster Bay Town Board has set a public
Hearing date of February 7 to consider a new
ordinance which would give local Water Districts
the right to discontinue water supplies and servi­ces
to those who have been found by a court to be
causing- possible contamination to obtainable
water supplies.
The amendment to the Town's Code of Ordi­nances
is intended to give the Commission of local
Water Districts the authority to take to court
violators of State Environmental Conservation
Laws. After obtaining a court determination, the
Water District would be able to discontinue water
supplies to those Who have been found to be dis­charging
contaminants into the water disposal
systems or on any property in the Town, which
could endanger the health, safety and welfare of
the community.
The amendment to the Tt)wn's Code of Ordi=^—
nances would provide that any .Water District in
the Town of Oyster Bay would be empowered to
terminate or discontinue water services and supp­lies
to any domestic, commercial, industrial, agri­cultural
or other non-municipal enterprise after it
had been found by the governing authorities of
the Water District and the Courts to be discharg­ing
pollutants in violation-of New York State
Environmental Conservation Laws.
The amendment, if adopted, would assist
Water Districts in preserving the quality of the
Town's water supplies and resources by attempt­ing
to prevent the discharge of pollutants which
could at some future time cause contamination of
public water supply wells for which the Water
Districts are responsible.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Febru­ary
7, 1984, beginning at 10:00 A.M; in the Town
Hall East hearing room, Audrey Avenue, Oyster
Bay.
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Increased
Tipping" Fees
The Oyster Bay Town Board has approved
increases in the disposal (tipping) fees at the
Town's solid waste management complex in Old
Bethpage.
"Because of projected costs for 1984 with
regard to the operation of the solid waste disposal
facility, the Town Board has increased the fee
from $24.00 to $28.00 per ton for refuse and gar­bage.
The disposal fee for tires and other bulky
items has been increased from $1.32 to $1.70 per
-hundred pounds and disposals from open body
containers have been raised from $2.40 to $2.80
per cubic yard.
The new feesjake effect on February 1st.
December 1983
Sh: 1914
P.O. Robert Grzymala
EIGHTH PRECINCT TOP COP
Officer Grzymala was awarded the December
Top Cop of the Month Award,, for his efforts on
Dec. 16, 1983, which led to the arrest of a suspect
who had just held up the European American
Bank, Hicksville Road, Bethpage, at Gun point.
The officer, after hearing a radio notification of
a Bank Stick-up with a description of the robbers
auto, stationed himself on the Seaford Oyster Bay
Expressway which he deduced to be a logical
escape route. As the suspects auto passed his loca­tion,
he radioed for assistance and went into pur­suit
of the suspect vehicle. Remaining at a safe
_ distance the off icer keptthe vehicle iri sight await­ing
therarrival^ofm'Police Hfelicd^^^
able to keep the-suspect in sight without panicirig
him into driving recklessly and endarigeringother
motorists. The pursuit went frotti the Seaford
Oyster Bay, to the Northern State Pkwy, to the
Long Island Expressway and back to the Seaford
Oyster Bay and finally was terminated near Sun-nyside
Blvd. and Manetto Hill Road, Plainyiew.
The arrest of Vincint Cummings 31, years of.
806 Lexington Ave: Brooklyn came about with no
injuries. $8,456 from the robbery was recovered,
and it closed out six other Nassau County Bank
Robberies, two of which were in Bethpage.
The people of the Bethpage Community are
both pleased and proud to have P.O. Grzymala
in the 8th precinct.
Dillon's New Justice Proposal
Nassau County • District Attorney' Denis Dillon today
introduced his 1984 criminal justice legislative package. The
23 proposals deal \yith problems that the DA's Office has
come across over the last few years. The bills deal with such
issues as work release, hazing, druiik driving, and consecu­tive
prison sentences.
• According to Dillon, "Once again, I am asking the legisla­ture-
to remove a cap on the amount of time an inmate can
serve on consecutive prison sentences. During the last ses­sion
of the legislature, on the heels of the diner gang spree,
we raised the 15 to 30 year cap to 30 to 50 years. While it is an
improvement, it stops far short of a more preferable result.
In permitting the punishment imposed to more appropriately
fit the nature-of the crimes committed, the bill adds an extra
measure of deterrence and increases the ability of the system
to protect society from its more serious and violent
offenders."
The District Attorney said he is also proposing two bills
which would tighten the legal guidelines for eligibility and
supervision of county and state inmates in work release
programs. These bills stem from investigationsof the Nas­sau
County Work Release Program by the DA's Office. The
legislation would make it necessary for the sentencing judge
to upprove inmates for work release and make ineligible
second felony offenders and violent felony offenders. The
bill also puts greater restrictions on places where work
release inmates may be employed and the supervision
required at those places of employment.
Another Dillon proposal would amend the Conservation
Law and allow local prosecutors to better enforce the prohi­bition
against water pollution. Presently, the law allows
those charged with polluting the groundwaters by polluting
the ground above them to claim that they never polluted any
waters, but merely the ground. This measure will remedy
this by providing that those who discharge sewage or other
wastes into or onto the ground located above a primary
groundwater recharge area are deemed to have discharged
such waste into the \yaters of the state.
The District Attorney has alsoproposed legislation dealing
with the crime of hazing. Tlie bill removes the; consent of the
hazing victini as a defnese to the-crime and makes clear that
the victim is not considered to be an accomplice. It also
makes proof of physical injury unnecessary. The legislation
removes the present impediments to hazing prosecutions
and would result in a more effective deterrent.
Dillon will travel to Albany next v/eek to seek sponsors
for his legislation. Meetings have been scheduled with lead­ers
in both the Assembly and Senate.