One of the biggest marina companies in the world is not only paying for the dredging of the entrance to Stirling Basin, which hasn’t been done in years, but it also plans to contribute to the cost of extending Greenport’s sewer district to the Sandy Beach area as well to its two marinas, which are mostly outside the village boundary.
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Greenport Village is taking the first step toward expanding its municipal sewer system into the Sandy Beach neighborhood.
(more…)A seemingly innocuous application to raise a home that sits in a flood zone turned into a debate last Thursday about frequently submerged cesspools located in that area and the harm they may be doing to the aquifer. READ
A proposal to connect the Sandy Beach neighborhood to the Greenport sewer system may have hit a snag, after an engineering report put the cost of the project at $1.1 million.
It may have just been a Village Board resolution accepting a bid for an engineering plan, but for the roughly two dozen homes in the Sandy Beach neighborhood of Greenport that have yet to be hooked up to a municipal sewer system, Monday’s unanimous board decision marked a significant step forward.
A plan to extend Greenport Village sewers to the Sandy Beach area off Stirling Basin will have to wait at least a year. READ