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Monday, November 12, 2007

11/12/07 - Westchester County Argues That The Sound Cleanup is Too Expensive


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Thissphere.blogspot.com


QOUTE:


“We are all for protecting Long Island Sound, but you’ve got to balance that over what people can afford to pay,”


STORY:


Westchester County has finally said publicly what its officials have known for a long time – that it will take a hell of a lot of money to meet the Long Island Sound cleanup’s nitrogen reduction goals at its two biggest sewage treatment plants, in Mamaroneck in New Rochelle. In fact, they seem to be saying that the benefit is not worth the cost.


The cost estimate, according to yesterday’s New York Times, runs from $355 million to $573 million, which is almost as much as one of the original estimates for doing nitrogen removal at every sewage treatment plant on the Sound in New York....


... cover heavily-populated areas - ' New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, parts of White Plains and Scarsdale, Harrison, Port Chester and other towns - ' and presumably people who live there would be happy to share the costs. The other presumption, however, is ...

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