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Fri, 2012-11-16 00:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Contractor: 'Stinks. You Can Smell The Sewage In It'

newyork.cbslocal.com - November 12, 2012

BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – As the clean-up from superstorm Sandy continues, there is a new environmental concern that has sprouted up in some towns along the South Shore of Long Island.

The storm churned up debris, gasoline, home heating oil and other hazardous materials. Many homes and waterways were also inundated with raw sewage.

“They are neither addressing or acknowledging that raw sewage ran through our homes.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/12/some-homes-condemned-following-raw-sewage-leak-on-long-islands-south-shore/

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Fri, 2012-11-16 18:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in Bay Park, Long Island, shown on Wednesday, has been out of commission since Hurricane Sandy struck.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sewage-rockaways-latest-stink-article-1.1202276#ixzz2CQmYPSfb

The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in Bay Park, Long Island, shown on Wednesday, has been out of commission since Hurricane Sandy struck.

nydailynews.com - by Vera Chinese and Corky Siemaszko - November 14, 2012

Add 50 million stinking gallons of pollution per day to the lengthy list of problems facing the Rockaways in the wake of Sandy.

That’s how much partially treated sewage has poured into the waters off the struggling Queens neighborhood since the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in nearby Nassau County was damaged by the storm.

Not only does it reek to high heaven, it’s a problem that’s not likely to get fixed until Thanksgiving, Nassau County officials admitted Wednesday.

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Add 50 million stinking gallons of pollution per day to the lengthy list of problems facing the Rockaways in the wake of Sandy.

That’s how much partially treated sewage has poured into the waters off the struggling Queens neighborhood since the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in nearby Nassau County was damaged by the storm.
 
Not only does it reek to high heaven, it’s a problem that’s not likely to get fixed until Thanksgiving, Nassau County officials admitted Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sewage-rockaways-latest-stink-article-1.1202276#ixzz2CQn0YiIl

Add 50 million stinking gallons of pollution per day to the lengthy list of problems facing the Rockaways. That’s how much partially treated sewage has poured into the waters off the struggling Queens neighborhood since the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in nearby Nassau County was damaged by the storm.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sewage-rockaways-latest-stink-article-1.1202276#ixzz2CQlwVBtW

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