The League of Women Voters, along with seven other major environmental groups, is working to prevent the drilling of new wells in the Lloyd Aquifer which provides water for coastal communities on Long Island. They support the 1986 Moratorium on such drilling.

The Suffolk Water Authority has applied for a permit to drill an 800-foot Lloyd Public Water Supply well and to use 8,000-year-old pure water to dilute nitrate pollution in another aquifer.

The proposed Middle Well #3 is not in a coastal community and is near a sewage treatment plant. This threatens the new well with pollution from nitrates and volatile organic compounds from contaminated soil.

If this permit to drill is granted, 60 other water districts might ask for permits to drill to reduce nitrates in their wells. Overpumping the Lloyd will produce salt water intrusion, closing priceless wells. These communities depend upon the Lloyd for their drinking water-Long Beach, Lido Beach, Atlantic Beach, North and South Coast Suffolk, Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset, Oyster Bay and Bayville.

Contact your elected officials and Commissioner Sheehan of the NYSDEC and ask them to uphold the 1986 Moratorium on the drilling of new wells in the Lloyd Aquifer, S-15-1528, Environmental Conservation Law, Article 15: Water Supply, Section 15. Commissioner Sheehan and state legislators can be reached at the following addresses:

Senator Michael Balboni

151 Herricks Road, #202, Garden City Park, NY 11040, Telephone: 516 873 0736

Assemblyman Thomas Di Napoli

11 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11021, Telephone: 516 482-6966

Commissioner Sheehan

NYSDEC

625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233

Edna Vincenti

Shirley Barsky

Action Committee

The Port Washington-Manhasset League of Women Voters may be contacted at 516-767-0570 (71 Sandy Hollow Road, Port Washington, NY 11050.)

Port Washington-Manhasset League of Women Voters