expansion of this facility. He is leading the crusade to
have this facility put back on the EPA Super Fund List.
6th District Councilman-Elect Keith Romaine has been a
strong supporter of Manorville residents. As a Civic
Leader, he was instrumental in shuttering a composting
facility in East Moriches that residents felt negatively
impacted their health & quality of life.
ages...These teenagers showed their
support by creating their own signs.
a series of 12 lined & unlined scavenger lagoons.
Monitoring wells detected metals and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), including toluene and tetrachloroethene, also an increase in the
concentrations of total dissolved solids, chloride and iron down-gradient of the site. More monitoring wells showed the groundwater
standards were exceeded for iron, manganese, nitrates, selenium, chlorobenzene, dichlorobenzene, and dichloromethane. In 1994, the
Papermill Road facility was listed as a Class 2a Super Fund site. The facility was closed when it did not meet the NYS environmental criteria
for operation. This site was never re-mediated...just de-listed! In December 2006, property adjacent to the site was purchased by the Town
of Brookhaven because a builder was unable to construct homes due to environmental issues.
