Op-Ed: Sewers Can Deplete Ground Water, Lower the Fresh Water Table - And Destroy Long Island's "Sole Source Aquifer"

By Seymour Bonneau Long Island does not have to choose between clean drinking water and healthy bays. It needs the infrastructure that will protect both. Excessive sewering - that does not recharge fresh water into the aquifer - can destroy Long Island's fresh water aquifer. The answer is to balance sewering, cesspools, waste water treatment and purification, and recharge basins to recharge the fresh water table, and allow a mixing of fresh and salt waters in our bays and harbors. Making...

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