Board Member Seeks Public Response to EPCAL

Perhaps sensing a lack of confidence on the part of the public with regard to EPCAL planning, Town Board Member John Dunleavy has proposed that residents provide comments, ideas or suggestions as to what should be done with the former Grumman site known as EPCAL. Meanwhile the supervisor seems to pushing ahead with zoning changes for the huge area. There is a sense that while the $90 million dollar offer from Pulte to build 400 or more homes and other facilities is attractive at the moment, critics are suggesting that this would not provide an ongoing source of revenue. The entire future of Riverhead's economy and the taxation of it's residents may be in the hands of this Board and there should be full disclosure as to what is planned as well as what has been agreed to in the past.

FDN Files Final Report on Landfill Leaving out the Big Number

FDN's final analysis of what went wrong at the Reclamation project did not provide those elusive figures everyone was waiting for; their estimated cost to cap the landfill both at the beginning and the cost to cap it now, several years later. Only one million yards of refuse has been removed from the project with another two million yards to go. Interestingly enough, Supervisor Cardinale says that there are several firms offering to buy the property and remove the refuse. We'd all like to hear more about that.

Community Journal Publishes Letter about Tap Street

We recently advised you of a situation wherein some Wading River residents were having a problem with the Brookhaven Planning Board regarding the cutting through of a tap street from a new subdivision to an existing subdivision. The Wading River residents detailed this in a letter to the editor at The Community Journal (free paper in supermarket lobby). The Journal was kind enough to publish our letter on the same subject in the current edition of the paper.