Bay Park Conveyance Project
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October 2021 - Construction Look Ahead - expect lane closures along Sunrise Highway in both directions during the coming weeks
Public Information Session - October 7, 2021
For the most up to date information on the Project, we encourage you to visit the website and Facebook page @BayParkConveyance, and register for email updates. Our Community Information Center is located at 265 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre and currently open by appointment only. You may contact us via the Project’s 24/7 hotline at (516) 252-6121 or email us at BayParkConveyance@gmail.com with any questions.
The Nassau County Department of Public Works has applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for partial funding of the Western Bays Resiliency Initiative. FEMA, in coordination with Nassau County DPW, prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to analyze the potential environmental impacts of the Bay Park Conveyance Project, which would divert treated Bay Park STP effluent from the existing outfall in Reynolds Channel to the Cedar Creek WPCP ocean outfall. The diversion of treated water from Bay Park STP to Cedar Creek WPCP would remove between 74 to 90 percent of the nitrogen currently discharged into the Western Bays.
The NEPA Environmental Assessment as well as additional information about the project can be found at https://www.bayparkconveyance.org/nepa-ea.
Under the Bay Park Conveyance Project, Nassau County would: (1) construct a new dedicated pump station at the Bay Park STP, (2) rehabilitate an existing aqueduct under Sunrise Highway, (3) construct new 72 inch diameter force mains between each of the two treatment plants and the existing aqueduct, and (4) construct a standpipe receiving tank connection at the existing Cedar Creek WPCP pump station. Construction of the new force mains would use microtunneling technology. Microtunneling is a method of constructing underground tunnels to install pipes, such as sewer mains, using a remotely operated microtunnel boring machine (MTBM). This method avoids the need to excavate long sections of open trenches at the ground surface to lay pipes. Nassau County would dig a total of 15 construction shafts, approximately 30 feet in diameter, at the beginning, end, and at several locations along the force main alignments; establishing staging areas of approximately half an acre around each construction shaft. The tunnel for each new force main would then be drilled between the shafts at depths below current ground surface of approximately 20 to 60 feet.
Interested parties may request an electronic copy of the EA by emailing FEMA at FEMAR2COMMENT@fema.dhs.gov. This EA reflects the evaluation and assessment of the federal government, the decision maker for the federal action; however, FEMA will take into consideration any substantive comments received during the public review period to inform the final decision regarding grant approval and project implementation. The public is invited to submit written comments by emailing FEMAR2COMMENT@fema.dhs.gov or via mail to:
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region II
Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation
One World Trade, Suite 53
(285 Fulton Street)
New York, NY 10007