Doesn stormwater go to a sewage treatment plant?
No. Stormwater that enters a storm drain flows through underground pipes that direct it to a nearby waterbody or leaching basin. The end pipe that the stormwater flows out of is called the “outfall pipe”. In Suffolk County, many outfall pipes discharge stormwater into ecologically valuable waterbodies such as Long Island Sound, Peconic Estuary, and Great South Bay.
