Newsday: Suffolk Voters Have A Rich History of Protecting Water
The following guest essay was published in the Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 edition of Newsday on...
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Tag: Aquifer
Suffolk Hopes A New Tax Will Protect Our Tap Water – But Will Local Politics Flush A Good Cause Down The Drain?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on June 7, 2024. Interested in...
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Remembering Lee E. Koppelman, 94, Titan of Long Island Planning and Environmental Protection
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on March 22nd, 2022. BY RICHARD...
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Is Suffolk’s Proposal to Charge Water Consumers to Help Pay for Septic Upgrades All Wet?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on March 1st, 2021. Interested in...
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Public Comments: Suffolk County’s Subwatersheds Wastewater Plan
The following comments were submitted on September 4th, 2019 to the Suffolk County Department of...
Read MoreNapoli: Cuomo Acts to Protect Long Island Water Supply (Sponsored Post)
The following a sponsored post written by an advertiser. For more information on the separation between sponsored content and The Foggiest Idea’s reported work and data-driven analysis, click here. By Paul J. Napoli In a...
Read MoreNew York City’s Plan to Reopen Queens Wells Puts Nassau Residents Up a Creek
The following was first published on The Foggiest Idea on August 8, 2017, and later published by The Island Now on August 10, 2017. You can read the piece on The Island Now here. New York City, which consumes almost a billion...
Read MorePublic Comment: Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection’s State of the Aquifer Report, October 13, 2016
The following was submitted to the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection on October 13, 2016. My name is Richard Murdocco. I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and am land use columnist who writes...
Read MoreWhere Does Melted Snow Go? – Boating Times Long Island
The following was written for Boating Times Long Island, and published on March 1, 2016. You can read the original here. When snow falls and canvasses Long Island’s suburbia, our hurried roads seem momentarily tranquil. In those...
Read MoreCuomo’s Plan to Study Long Island’s Water Woes a Baby Step in Right Direction
The following was written for the Long Island Press on 2/29/16. You can read the original here. From the tap, a glass of Long Island’s water is crisp, cool and refreshing—descriptions that any soft drink or craft-beer company...
Read MoreLetter to the Editor – Crain’s New York Business: Queensifying Long Island
The following appeared in the May 25th, 2015 edition of Crain’s New York Business. The original piece can be read here. “A surprising solution for city’s housing dilemma” (May 4) correctly addresses a growing...
Read MoreSondock Is Wrong On Water Protection
Recently, Clifford Sondock wrote a letter to the editor in Newsday regarding Long Island’s groundwater. The letter can be read below in italics, as well as here on Newsday.com. My response follows. Why the alarm over Long...
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