HomeMy WebLinkAbout00_PETitleContentPilot Study of Clustered
Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Peconic Estuary
Funded by
Suffolk County Water Quality Protection and Restoration Grogram and land Stewardship Initiatives
Fund 477
REV 6-4-2013 Law No.14-ED-060
Peconic Green Growth, Inc.
September 30, 2014
Prepared by
Glynis M. Berry, AIA, LEED AP, Peconic Green Growth, Inc.
651 W. Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 631 591 2402
www.peconicgreengrowth.org
with
Engineering and Ownership Models by
Natural Systems Utilities, Inc., Applied Water Management
2 Clerico Lane, Suite 1, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 908 359 5501
Grants from the following sources were used as partial match:
LI Sound Futures Fund 2012 -National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Planning Grant
Henry Phillip Kraft Family Memorial Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation
Patagonia, Inc.
Major commitments of time and resources were donated by:
Natural Systems Utilities Inc./Applied Water Management
The Town of Southampton, GIS Department
The Orient Association
Suffolk County
Funds from the following sponsors of the Symposium, 2013 were applied as match to this study:
Platinum: Bridgehampton National Bank
Clear Flo Technologies, Inc.
Gold: The Nature Conservancy
Roux Associates, Inc.
Silver: David and Kate Calone
Lombardo Associates, Inc.
Sea Tow Services International, Inc.
Bronze: AEC Engineering Design & Construction PLLC
Coastal Pipeline Products Corp.
Excav Services
Jet Inc.
No project can be done in isolation, our thanks to the many people who supported this project including, but not limited to:
The team from Natural Systems Utilities including Ed Clerico, Rick Cisterna, David Smith, and Jens Riedel, who were true partners in the project;
The Town of Southampton, especially Ross Baldwin, Director of GIS Services, and Supervisor Anna Throne Holst and Jennifer Garvey for allowing/fostering the support;
Suffolk County: including, David Calone, Chair, SC Planning Commission, Kara Hahn, SC Legislature, Wayne Horsley, SC Legislator, Al Krupski, SC Legislature, Gwynne Schroeder;
SC Department of Public Works: Gilbert Anderson, Commissioner, John Donovan, Chief Engineer of Sanitation;
SC Department of Health Services: Walter Dawydiak, Acting Director of Environmental Quality, Walter Hilbert, Principle Public Health Engineer, Alison Branco, Director Peconic Estuary
Program, Michael Jensen SC Bureau of Marine Resources, Jonathan S. Wanlass SC;
SC Department of Economic Development and Planning: Sarah Lansdale, Director of Planning and Environment, Dorian Dale, Director of Sustainability, Christine DeSalvo; Michael Maraviglia
NYSDEC: Tom Boekeloo, Lorraine Holdridge, Anthony Leung, Julie Nace, Sarah Deonarine, Nancy Pierson;
- US EPA: Kristina Heinemann, Rob Adler;
- U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop;
- NYS Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr.;
- The Nature Conservancy including Marci Bortman, Kevin McDonald, Wayne Grothe, Christopher Clapp, Elizabeth Smith, and Stephen Lloyd;
- The Orient Association: Venetia Hands, President, Bob Hanlon, Ellen McNeilly, Kathleen Becker, Catherine Chaudhuri and others. Sandra Sinclair, the Orient Country Store;
- Organizational partners: The East Marion Civic Association, Jamesport Civic Association, Southold Voice, Janice Jay Young and The Bay View Pines Civic & Taxpayers Association,
Vince Taldone, FRANCA, Linda Auriemma and Board of New Suffolk Civic Association, Julie Ben-Susan of the Shelter Island Heights Property Owners Corporation, Southold Voice, Howard Meineke;
- Town of Southold: Supervisor Scott Russell, the Town of Southold Trustees, in particular John Bredemeyer, and the town planning and engineering departments, especially Michael Collins
- Town of Riverhead: Sean Walter, Supervisor, Jill Lewis, Deputy Supervisor, Michael Reichel , Sewer District Superintendent, and planning department;
- Town of Shelter Island, including Jim Dougherty, Supervisor, Laury Dowd, Town Attorney, Tim Purtell
- Ed Romaine, Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven;
- Bill Cagle, Orenco Systems, Inc.
- Bob Eichinger, Onsite Engineering
- Sarah J. Meyland, Director of the Center for Water Management Resources, NYIT;
- Doug Clark, Erin Moore, Clark Engineering;
- Citizens Campaign for the Environment: Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director, and Tara Bono;
- Bill Toedter, Director North Fork Environmental Council;
- Christopher Gobler, PhD, Stony Brook University;
- Albert Robert Rubin, NCSU;
- David Berg of Cameron Engineering & Associates;
- Edward Sawchuck of Aqua Vectors;
- William V. DeCandido of In-Pipe Technology;
- Candace Balmer of RCAP Solutions;
- Sarah Cedar Miller, Photographer and SeaTV;
- Lynn Dwyer, Assistant Director, NE, NFWF/LISS;
- Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones and Nancy Arnold of the LICF;
- Bob Eichinger; Jay Prager of Maryland Department of Environment; George Loomis, Director of New England Onsite Wastewater Training; George Heufelder and Brian Baumgaertel of the Massachusetts
Alternative Septic System Test Center; Amy Macrellis of Stone Environmental, Inc.; Kathryn Macri and Dwight Brown of NYS EFC; Jonathan Zwarg, RI Department of Environmental Management;
- Donated venues: Suffolk County Community College Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center, Greenport, Riverhead and Mattituck libraries, and art sites.;
- AIA Peconic Chapter;
- Colin Goldberg;
- Jason O’Dell;
- Hideaki Ariizumi of studio a/b architects;
Karen Dorsky, Sherry Thomas, Joyce Beckenstein, Bob Hanlon, and Michael M Maraviglia for editing;
- The Board of Peconic Green Growth, Inc. including Drianne Benner, Bob Governale, Brian Mealy, Nancy Messer, and Sherry Thomas;
- And all the concerned citizens who participated in our events and survey.
We especially thank Suffolk County their care and support, without which this effort could not have gained traction.