Riverhead Lawsuit Against DEC Explained

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

https://riverheadlocal.com/2021/03/30/riverhead-sues-state-dec-over-water-supply-issue-permit-delay-at-former-grumman-site/

https://riverheadlocal.com/2021/02/02/suffolk-county-water-authority-rejects-towns-demand-to-drop-its-claim-to-supply-calverton-enterprise-park-with-public-water/

Tidal Wetlands

The tidal wetlands act of 1973 was put through by the DEC (Dept of Environmental Conservation), and was meant to protect them from landscaping, or any building along those shorelines.

They run around the southern tip of Staten Island, the entire coast of Long Island, which includes Shelter and Gardiner's Island, the lower Hudson River, all the way up to Troy Dam.

Shelter's, and Gardiner's Island are at the end of Long Island, in between there and Rhode Island.

Staten Island is in between New Jersey and Brooklyn.

Lower Hudson starts between those three, and Troy Dam is in Albany.

Permits are required by the Tidal Wetlands Permit Program, which regulates any activities between these areas.

12 Tidal Wetlands include:

Old Place Creek - Northern Staten Island, 20+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Lemon Creek - Southern Staten Island, 30+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Titus Mill Pond State - New Rochelle, near Mt Vernon and Yonkers,  20+ miles from me, around 2 hrs by mta.

Inwood Bay - Inwood, near John F. Kennedy Airport, closest to me probably, 2 hrs by mta.

Piermont Marsh - Orange Town, NY, like 40+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Petteanger Island State - Is near Jones Beach Island, 40 miles away from me, no mta.

Ludlows Creek State - Oakdale, way in Long Island, hella like 50+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Babylon Marsh State - Babylon, near Jones Beach Island, between Hempstead and Bayshore, 35+ miles away from me, no mta.

Stillman Creek - Bluepoint, 50+ miles away from me, no mta.

Baiting Hollow - Baiting Hollow, near the Wildwood State Park in Long Island, 70+ miles away from me, no mta.

Fireplace Neck - Brookhaven, next to the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Long Island, 60+ miles away from me, no mta.

Mount Sinai - Mt Sinai, in Long Island, 60+ miles away from me, no mta.

Long Island encompasses two counties and two boroughs; boroughs include queens and kings, and counties include suffolk and nassau.

Boroughs are technically Long Island but they're more so their own thing, while the counties are more encompassed by Long Island's geography.

Nassau is more established than Suffolk.

Nassau is to Suffolk what Livermore is to Castro Valley, in the East Bay.

And Nassau and Suffolk is to Queens and Kings what like Oakland and Hayward is to the Central Valley, essentially what the East Bay is to the Central Valley.

You might disagree, but that's the best I could come up w, being from Hayward and Oakland. 

Bc like the Central Valley isn't like branching off into a peninsula the same way. 

I just realized I live on an island, technically.

Brooklyn is a part of the ninth region