Why doesn’t SCWA filter the water in the area to remove nitrates?
This a very expensive process which SCWA has attempted at a pump station off Larkfield Road in East Northport. It requires a large area for additional buildings, a large capital investment and large ongoing operational costs. For local neighboring residents, it also will mean 7,000-gallon diesel powered tractor-trailer tanker trucks (and the resultant air pollution) coming and going from the area to dispose of the concentrated nitrates that have been removed from the water. The concentrated nitrates will have to be trucked to the Bergen Point Sewer Plant, treated, and then pumped into the ocean.
