It's basically a dispute over who a part of the Enterprise Park at Calverton's water distributor is out of Riverhead Water District and Suffolk County Water Authority
Without that title Riverhead can't carry out a deal they're trying to make with the Triple 5 Group, which is a strip mall conglomerate
As it is, Riverhead has successfully retained this title over three prior subdivisions of the same property/land, which includes the Stony Brook Incubator, the Peconic Care Center, and the Island Water Park, through permits, via Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act (WSRRA)
So they're basically like you've let us have this much of that property as it is through these means
Why don't you let us have this portion
You've even given it to us under good graces
In 1999 the U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded grant money to our Industrial Development Agency, and Water District to improve their (EPCAL) water system
The Enterprise Park of Calvert is an airpark that used to belong to the navy who turned it over to the Grumman Corp who used it for aircraft testing and assembly until they turned it over to Riverhead in 1998
But the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) won't let them use that method this time, bc that area is especially assigned to the SCWA for its adjacency to the Peconic River
DEC said unless SCWA rescinds their objection to Riverhead's being EPCAL's water distributor, they cannot obtain this permit they were able to get for the last three subdivisions, and they won't
It's a very circumstantial conflict bc I read in another story that SCWA really doesn't mind Riverhead carrying out their economic plans of development with Triple 5 Group
But they don't want to give up their position as EPCAL's water distributor bc then that would be a source of income they're losing
And it was the DEC that appointed SCWA as their water distributor in the first place so it's really like they're pitting the two water districts or entities against each other
Bc on the same dime if Riverhead could go through w their economic development plans in that part of EPCAL without having to be their water supplier they would
But the DEC won't allow them to do it without that title or WSRRA permit so they're suing
I could also be wrong about what I said in the third paragraph where I said Riverhead assumed the title of water distributor of those parts of EPCAL through WSRRA permits if I misread
And what that actually meant was other towns were able to acquire those parts of EPCAL the same way Riverhead is trying to get this one, via WSRRA, only without having to assume the position of water distributor like they're making Riverhead do in this case
If that makes sense
That would be a whole nother level of messed up
I don't think that's what it was though
EPCAL is a part of Calverton, NY
Both of them and Riverhead are a part of Suffolk County
They're both around 75 miles away from me
And only one of those two are accessible via MTA and that's Riverhead
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/turkey-breaks-into-erie-county-home-causes-damage-removed-by-dec
