Sag Harbor Village is the recipient of a $34,091 New York State grant to develop an engineering study to replace failing septic systems in the Redwood neighborhood with a decentralized wastewater collection and treatment system to reduce nitrogen and pathogen loading in Sag Harbor Cove.
The grant is part of more than $18 million for water quality and climate resiliency projects on Long Island, itself part of a $265 million-plus statewide investment, according to an announcement last week by the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Redwood neighborhood “has a lot of waterfront homes, which means a lot of waterfront septic systems,” said the village board’s Aidan Corish, who has been focused on the village’s sewage treatment plant and has overseen the organization of a sewershed expansion project. “We wanted to look at it in more detail to see if we can decide on an engineering plan as to how best to improve the onsite septic systems there.”
The goal is to apply for more grant money to develop a full engineering plan. “This is the first step in a long process, a very broad, 30,000-foot look,” which he said will “hopefully point us in the right direction.”
