Long Island homeowners and community leaders are calling for an emergency response to sinkholes. They are being blamed on aging infrastructure, after multiple water and sewer pipes burst in Nassau County over the past two months. McLoganTV reports.
in our country's history," said County Legislator Debra Mulé.
Mulé is asking the federal, state and county governments to get a billion dollars of that infrastructure money into Nassau's aging water and sewer pipes. "In some places, the sewer pipes in Nassau County are 70 years old and approximately 50 percent of them sit under what is considered the groundwater table. So they're constantly underwater," said Lauren Sternberg, a spokesperson for Veolia North America, LI. "You can only do good when you're doing well. So we need to make sure that we have an infrastructure here that can support any additional development of any kind," said County Legislator Siela Bynoe.
"No one should have to deal with that. I can't sit outside on my deck and enjoy the summer evening because it's so loud and stinky," said Floreska.
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