If you are a registered voter residing in the Town of Oyster Bay let me know if you want to sign a petition to get independent candidate Robert Ripp on the ballot for Town Supervisor!
End Corruption now!
Some of what Rob's platform:
Inviting the FEDS to do a full financial forensic audit.
Make everything as transparent as possible and available online for residents review.
Terminating the Cerro Wire deal and figuring out how to get that property back.
Terminate private sanitation. Enlarge the work force. Removing all dead wood patronage appointed commissioners.
Ending wasteful spending contracts meant to enrich the same few people.
Terminate the Flowers contract and correct the damage its caused to Oyster Bay.
End the sweet heart land lease deals.
Create a real ethics code and board.
Promote from within based on merit.
End all patronage employment. ...
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Christina Fiorentino Mirro shared a post to Hicksville Gardens Civic Association's Timeline. ...
We would like to thank our sponsors for helping us give out 8 scholarship to our Hicksville HS seniors. Congratulations to all our winners.
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I encourage all members of the HGCA to vote tomorrow for Christopher Amato in the Board of Education election.
As a teacher, a father of children in the district, and a lifelong Hicksville resident, no other candidate is more qualified to act in our best interest. ...
Hicksville buildings that handled uranium to be torn down
February 18, 2016 By Emily C. Dooley, emily.dooley@newsday.com, Newsday
The exterior of buildings located at 70-140 Cantiague Rock Rd. in Hicksville are seen on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Demolition of these buildings will begin in March with radiation and contamination surveys taking place daily as the site formerly processed uranium and thorium for nuclear rods. (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein).
Verizon Communications plans to demolish two buildings at a former nuclear fuel manufacturing site in Hicksville that decades ago handled uranium, and the work will require daily tests for radiation and other contaminants.
If contamination is found at the former Sylvania Corning Plant and cannot be treated, it will have to be shipped off-site as radioactive waste to an approved facility, state Department of Environmental Conservation officials said.
From 1952 to 1965 the plant made cores, slugs and nuclear fuel elements for the Atomic Energy Commission inside buildings at 70 and 140 Cantiague Rock Rd., which are now vacant. Through a series of mergers Verizon became the property owner. The company will hire a certified radiological consultant to do the daily contamination tests.
The site is one of 24 across the nation that is part of an Army Corps of Engineers cleanup program remediating radioactive waste left over from America’s early atomic energy era. It is also part of a voluntary state hazardous site cleanup program.
Verizon spokesman Ray McConville said the company wanted to demolish the buildings because they weren’t being used and the company did not want to maintain them. He said the company was confident the work would not expose neighbors to dangerous contaminants. “The site is safe,” he said. “[We’re] performing surveys. We want to be transparent.”
Between 2003 and 2005, 58,000 cubic yards of waste containing the radioactive elements uranium and thorium, the possible carcinogen and solvent Tetrachloroethene, and nickel were removed from the site and taken to a nuclear waste facility in Utah.
DEC officials said they did not expect radiologicals to be found at the site because of previous cleanup work. The demolition work will not involve excavating soil or foundations and any holes will be filled with concrete grout.
Once the buildings are gone, the DEC will do a site analysis to look for non-radiological contamination.
Army Corps officials said the demolition work was outside the scope of its cleanup program. An off-site groundwater study is being conducted to see if contaminants have migrated to the aquifer. The Corps has $1 million this year for the study and another $950,000 budgeted next year to finish the work, Corps spokesman James D’Ambrosio said.
The property has long been controversial. Former employees at the site have reported dumping toxic cleaning solvents into unlined sumps and incinerating uranium, allowing the ashes to go airborne.
Meanwhile, the buildings have been a blight on the community, said Joel Berse, president of the NorthWest Civic Association of Hicksville.
“If they’re going to eliminate an eyesore, that’s great, but what are they going to unleash on us by demolishing?” he said.
Gina Miano, a manager at T & P Paper across the street from the site, said she had not been notified of the work. “Now that it’s actually happening, we should be a little concerned,” she said.
McConville said demolition work was expected to begin in March and take 30 days. The Town of Oyster Bay is processing a permit for the building at 70 Cantiague Rock Rd. A second one for the other building has not been filed. The town will do its routine inspections for gas, electric and rodent issues and, while the demolition permit is like any other, the town’s environmental consultant Hal Mayer said: “We’re conscious of the fact of the environmental sensitivities.”
In an unsigned statement from a general press email address, the state Department of Health said the agency reviewed the work plan and would be a “point of contact for community members who may have questions about site-related health matters.”
The agency did not respond to questions, such as if there was a hotline. ...
Pipe-puncture mystery vexes Hicksville homeowner
Hicksville, NY -
Pinhole-sized punctures are causing costly leaks inside the walls of a Hicksville home, and the owner wants to uncover the source of the problem.
Lena Mishin says the copper piping in her home has sprung leaks more than 15 times in the past 10 years.
The kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms have been ripped apart. The plumbing has been fixed and even replaced. But despite thousands of dollars in repairs, the leaks trickle on. One spot in her bedroom has seen four leaks over the past two years, she says.
"I'm just so frustrated," Mishin says. "I live on pins and needles. I don't know when the next leak is going to occur."
Mishin says she has posted about her troubles on Facebook and other neighbors have reached out to report similar problems. Customers in the Plainview water district say they're also experiencing plumbing issues.
Plumber Jeff Klaverweiden says copper piping can fail for several reasons, including the age of the pipes, a stray electrical current, or water that is too acidic.
Mishin says new copper pipes were installed in her home in 2003. The pipes checked out negative for a current, and the Hicksville water district said the water was not the cause. It said the pH was at 8.1 the last time the water was tested.
"Normally it should be 7 or so, and if it is higher, it's more acidic and it also affects the copper piping systems," says Klaverweiden.
The Hicksville water district would not comment on Mishin's situation, but said it was contacting her, and said its pH levels are within guidelines.
The Plainview water district said it is trying to determine the cause of its customers' issues.
(News 12 Long Island, 2/20/17) ...
Members of the Hicksville Gardens Civic Association, A sincere Thank You for your Time, Support & great questions at this past Thursday's meeting. Have a safe festive holiday season. Finally... Please exercise your civic right to vote " Blazo" on December 13th. 3-9 pm at either the firehouse on East Marie Street or Levittown parkway to enter your ballet for Hicksville Fire Commissioner. Thank You. ...
Noticing a new trend of cars going the WRONG way down "One way" 9th street.... be careful. Hopefully one day they will put a cop there before someone gets hit. ...
I would like to join this organization,, where do I apply and how much is the fee to join.. I missed the meeting the other night and would very mush to join the oil consortium for next year.. Please reply.... Toni LaSpina ...
