On the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, Suffolk County is home to wealthy communities such as the Hamptons. It’s also home to a large number of cesspools, which are blamed for a number of water-quality problems along the county’s shoreline.
To address the problem, local officials have begun a campaign to replace cesspools as the only predominant means of wastewater treatment. In August 2017, the town of East Hampton became the first in the county to require low-nitrogen wastewater systems in all new construction and projects involving substantial renovation. The town also approved a rebate system that will give
