Formal Opposition for Treatment Plant on Bicycle Path

The following letter was drafted by the executive board of the Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Civic Association, formally opposing the public grant application for a waste water treatment facility on Bicycle Path.  

June 26th, 2013

Sara Lansdale, Director of Planning

H. Lee Dennison Building

100 Veterans Memorial Hwy.

4th Floor, Dept. of Economic Development and Planning

Hauppauge, NY 11788

Dear Ms. Lansdale,

            Please be advised that we, the Port Jefferson Station-Terryville Civic Association strongly oppose the application for a grant for a waste water treatment plant filed jointly by Woodhaven Nursing Center and Jefferson Meadows, LLC.  It is our understanding both entities are private, for profit businesses that would need to provide funding for themselves and not use public grants.

            Jefferson Meadows, LLC was provided a special permit via the “Blight to Light” program though the Town of Brookhaven Planning Department under the auspices that the developer would provide an upgrade at his expense to the current waste water treatment plant at Woodhaven Nursing Center to accommodate both the Nursing Center and the proposed Jefferson Meadows project.

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            The Brookhaven town Board was presented with this waste water treatment plant application in a work session earlier this month and did not support it because not enough time was given to explore how this would impact the Port Jefferson Station-Terryville Hamlet.  Our hamlet is currently in the midst of a Town of Brookhaven funded commercial hub study along the NYS Route 112 corridor further north and would really be looking to have funding for a future waste water treatment facility closer to that area where higher density and increased mixed use development would be considered more appropriate.

            We thank you in advance for considering the true waste water treatment plant needs of the Port Jefferson Station-Terryville before allocating any funds to our Hamlet.  We will email a copy of this letter to both our Suffolk County legislator, and the Town of Brookhaven officials who are aware of the projects, hub study and the concerns of the Port Jefferson Station-Terryville Civic Association.

Yours Truly,

Ed Garboski, President                                   

 Charles McAteer, 

Corresponding Secretary

Port Jefferson Station-Terryville Civic Association

Cc: Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (via email copy)

       Brookhaven Supervisor Edward Romaine (via email copy)

       Brookhaven Councilmen Steve Fiore-Rosenfeld (via email copy)

       PJSTCA Executive Board (via email copy)