Suffolk County, New York, is planning to establish a countywide water management district to aid in the fight against bacterial contamination of its Atlantic Ocean shoreline.
The county occupies the eastern end of Long Island and has worked for years to counter problems from the approximately 360,000 cesspools used for onsite wastewater treatment.
What the management district will do, said County Executive Steve Bellone in a press release, is enable repair of the county’s water infrastructure. It will do this by creating a structure to implement the county’s long-term water quality plan, expand financial assistance to homeowners, and serve as
