After years of hard work and advocacy, Suffolk County voters can now choose a clean water future by Voting Yes on Prop 2 this Election Day.
We all depend on clean water. For years, we’ve read about the harmful effects of excess nitrogen pollution in our water. Research shows that nitrogen from sewage is suffocating our bays and harbors, contaminating drinking water, and causing fishkills and harmful algae blooms.
Restoring clean, healthy water requires drastically reducing nitrogen pollution from its main source: outdated wastewater systems. Prop 2 will update our wastewater infrastructure to safeguard clean drinking water and restore our beaches, bays, and harbors.
[Watch this expert panel discussion hosted by Save the Great South Bay to learn more.]
Prop 2 will restore clean water by modernizing wastewater infrastructure; it will expand sewers and provide tax-free grants to homeowners to replace polluting septic systems with clean water technology. If approved by voters, the Act would create a dedicated fund, financed by an 1/8 penny increase to the county sales tax. The funding could only be used to improve water quality in Suffolk County. This local fund would unlock federal and state clean water funding to help with projects right here in Suffolk County.
These clean water projects will protect public health, create thousands of good jobs, revitalize business districts, and restore our local bays and harbors.
The New York League of Conservation Voters is proud to support Prop 2 and urges all Suffolk County voters to VOTE YES in this year’s general election on November 5. (Click here to find your polling place.) Be sure to encourage other Suffolk County voters to VOTE YES, too, so the county can secure a clean water future.
We owe it to future generations in Suffolk County to make sure they have clean water to drink and can enjoy the county’s beaches, bays, and harbors without fear of contamination. .