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{"DF0910E0-5056-A066-600B-928F17D175CC":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"DF0910E0-5056-A066-600B-928F17D175CC","title":"Sen. Schumer Calls on FEMA to Deliver Power to Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant","summary":"East Rockaway, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"March 28, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-calls-on-fema-to-deliver-power-to-bay-park-sewage-treatment-plant","city":"East Rockaway","county":"Nassau","lat":40.631704,"lng":-73.66077059999998,"description":"On March 28th 2018, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer revealed that, nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy, the Bay Park Sewer Treatment plant still relies on generators for power and that the current power plan cannot continue for much longer without risk to the treatment facility itself, residents, or the local environment. Schumer, who secured over $800 million in fed funds for the Bay Park treatment plant to get back on line and to clean up a large-scale mess, said that Bay Park needs more electricity and needs it fast in order to finish the job that these federal funds helped accomplish in the first place, and that the final step—this power approval—is amongst the last pieces of a larger plan to protect Nassau and Long Island residents should another storm come ashore. Schumer called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to approve the plan Nassau County has submitted to provide the additional power to the sewage treatment plant before it is too late.\r\n\r\n“What we need here is to bypass any bureaucratic logjam and let the power flow to Bay Park,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. “For five years now, Nassau has worked to retool, recalibrate and remake this treatment plant into a better facility, and now the final piece—a power plan—is one of the last things left standing between resiliency and risk. We cannot afford the risk, and so we are making an all-out push to get Nassau’s power plan to the top of the FEMA paperwork pile before it is too late. With today’s ever-changing climate, too late could come too soon and so we have to make the effort to protect Long Island before the next storm should form, aim or hit us. FEMA must see this push for what it is: an effort to protect an $800 million dollar federal investment that I worked very hard to deliver and also a major cost avoidance for their own coffers, should we, god forbid, see another major storm. The folks standing with me today have submitted the right kind of plan to go beyond the generators and now, all we are waiting on is an electric ‘yes’ from the feds, and my hope is that we get it soon, so Nassau can finish the job.”  "}}

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