At the same time county lawmakers imposed the sewage fees in 2010, they voted to repeal the “county guaranty” requiring Nassau to pay all tax refunds resulting from erroneous assessments.

Nassau County is poised to pick a private operator for its sprawling sewer system in a nearly $1 billion deal that would represent the largest and most complex financial transaction in county history.

The testing is an expansion of a program that was introduced in 2022 to test wastewater for COVID-19. In 2023, similar testing methods were utilized to detect measles according to Nassau County. ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --Some residents were charged 75 percent more than they should have been for sewer services in Nassau County.Tens of thousands of residents in the Garden City, Rockville ...

Residents in the villages—Mineola, Garden City, Hempstead, Freeport and Rockville Centre—received county… Long Island Press is the new home of your local paper. Learn more .

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano said going private is Nassau's best way out of staggering debt -- the highest in the state. Nassau sewers, he said, are broken and polluting waterways.

Nassau County’s wastewater system is now in the hands of Veolia North America, following the completion of its merger with Suez North America. Veolia is already active in water and wastewater ...

With the polio virus detected in the wastewater from North Hempstead in Nassau County, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state disaster emergency. The protocol allows EMS workers ...

There are several calls for a makeover of Nassau County’s sewer system after it became completely overwhelmed during Friday’s storm. Sewer water spilled onto Barnes Avenue in Baldwin during ...

Nassau is the latest county in the state to detect polio in the wastewater, prompting a state disaster emergency. The Department of Health is urging anyone who hasn't done so to get the polio vaccine.