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FREEPORT MEMORiA!
DEC 0 6 2007
LIBRARY
72nd Year, No. 49 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, December 6, 2007 75^
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Jones Beach sewage plant has 32 violations
By Laura Schofer
The Jones Beach Sewage Treatment Plant, permitted to treat 2.5 million gallons of effluent a day, has the highest number of violations to its permit, dumping coliform and suspended solids into the shallow back bays and marsh islands north of Jones Beach State Park and just behind the Nikon Jones Beach Theatre.
Environmentalists Adriemie Esposito of the Citizens Campaign for the
Environment and Rob Weltner, President of SPLASH, said that even though there is a no swimming, clamming or a fishing zone around the sewage treatment plant, some of the treated effluent still ends up in 2^ch's Bay where people anchor their boats and swim on a hot summer's day.
The Jones Beach Sewage Treatment Plant, owned and run by the New York State Department of Recreation, has racked up 32 violations to its permit, since 2004. The plant was built in the
1950s by Robert Moses. It treats and
processes on average 120,000 gallons a day of both solid and liquid waste dispersed from four pumps within the park.
The facility uses two separation tanks to separate solids from fluids and to purify the water, and a combination of bacteria and natural drying to treat the effluent. By comparison, the Cedar Creek treatment facility in Wmtagh uses an aeration system to treat more than 50 million gallons of
sewage daily.
The treatment plant has very little to process in winter months but demand is high during the summer, when the plant processes about 180,000 gallons a day, said George Gorman from the New York State Department of Parks and Recreation. He added that the plant has processed as much as 700,000 gallons a day on Memorial Day or July 4th.
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| Title | The-Leader_2007-12-06 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2007 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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