South Shore Estuary Reserve

Technical Report Series





Inactive Hazardous Waste

Disposal Sites

and

Active and Inactive Solid Waste

Disposal Facilities





November, 1999









Prepared for the South Shore Estuary Reserve Council

by the New York State Department of State




Acknowledgements

This report is one in a series of technical reports prepared by the Department of State or its consultants as baseline information and considered by the South Shore Estuary Reserve Council during preparation of a comprehensive management plan for the Reserve. Members of the Technical Advisory Committee and Citizens Advisory Committee (see end of report) contributed information and insights throughout the preparation of these reports.

George E. Pataki, Governor
Randy A. Daniels, New York State Secretary of State

South Shore Estuary Reserve Council Members/Designees

Randy A. Daniels, Council Chair/George R. Stafford
Robert J. Gaffney, Suffolk County Executive/George Proios
Thomas S. Gulotta, Nassau County Executive/Dan C. Fucci
Bruce Nyman, City Manager, City of Long Beach/Joe Fabrizio
Richard V. Guardino, Supervisor, Town of Hempstead/
Ronald Masters/Mike Foley
John Venditto, Supervisor, Town of Oyster Bay/
James M. Byrne, P.E./Nancy Kearney
Richard H. Schaffer, Jr., Supervisor, Town of Babylon/
Richard Groh
Peter McGowan, Supervisor, Town of Islip/Alan Svoboda
John Jay LaValle, Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven/
Jeffrey Kassner
Vincent Cannuscio, Supervisor, Town of Southampton/
Marty Shea
William Glacken, Mayor, Village of Freeport
Jeff Fullmer, Chair, Citizens Advisory Committee
Cornelia Schlenk, Chair, Technical Advisory Committee
Robert Grover, Great South Bay Audubon Society
Jill Ozarski, Long Island Chapter of the Nature Conservancy
Marvin Geller, Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center,
SUNY Stony Brook/William M. Wise
Patrick H. Augustine, New York Sportsfishing Federation
Mitch Pally, Long Island Association/Marion Cohn
Robert Wieboldt, Long Island Builders Institute, Inc.
Christopher Squeri, New York Marine Trades Association
Carole Neidich-Ryder, North Shore Audubon Society
Gregory LoVece, Brookhaven Bayman's Association

Council Advisors

Erin M. Crotty, Commissioner, NYS Department of
Environmental Conservation/Gordon Colvin/Karen Chytalo
Bernadette Castro, Commissioner, NYS Office of Parks,
Recreation and Historic Preservation/Gary Lawton 		New York State Department of State

Division of Coastal Resources
George R. Stafford, Director
Rodney McNeil, Project Manager
Dennis Mildner (Water Resources)
Jeffrey Zappieri (Living Resources)
Nancy Rucks (Land Use/Embayment Use/Underwater Lands)
Peter Lauridsen (Geographic Information System)

Other Contributing Staff: Fred Anders; John Bartow; D. Peter Berical;
Paul R. Churchhill; Fitzroy Collins; Susan DiDonato; John Herring; Jeffrey Herter; Charles McCaffrey; Nikifor Nikiforov; Laurissa Parent; Kenneth Smith; Lee York; and Thomas Zyskowski

Other Contributors

Patrick Dooley (Technical Advisory Committee support)
Veronica Kemler (Citizens Advisory Committee support)

SUNY Albany: Floyd Henderson and Matthew Kohberger (Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing)

Previous Council Members/Designees: Ken Cynar (Nassau County); Felix J. Grucci (former Supervisor of the Town of Brookhaven); Anthony Limoli (Town of Islip); Nick Manzari (Captree Boatman's Association); George Nussbaum (former Mayor of the Village of Massapequa Park); and Adeline Quinn (City of Long Beach)

Former Department of State Staff: Robert Crafa; Diane Hamilton-Bell; Susan Dzurica; Thomas Hart; and Joseph Sicluna

The South Shore Estuary Reserve Council acknowledges the dedication of former Secretary of State Alexander "Sandy" Treadwell over the last five years to bring the Plan to fruition.

Preparation of this plan was financially aided by: the New York State Environmental Protection Fund; New York State legislative member initiatives ; and a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.





Technical Advisory Committee
Cornelia Schlenk, Chair, New York Sea Grant
Diane Abell, Fire Island National Seashore
Ken Arnold, Nassau County Department of Public Works
Charles Bartha, Suffolk County Department of Public Works
Lorne Birch, Department of Planning and Economic Development, Town of Hempstead
Betty Borowsky, South Shore Audubon Society
Stuart Buckner, Department of Environmental Control, Town of Islip
Kenneth Budny, Brookhaven Bayman's Association
Robert Cerrato, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook
Karen Chytalo, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Walter Dawydiak, Office of Ecology, Suffolk County Department of Health Services
Lauretta Fischer, Suffolk County Department of Planning
Jack Foehrenbach, Great South Bay Chapter, Audubon Society
Michael Foley, Department of Conservation and Waterways,Town of Hempstead
Dan Fucci, Nassau County Department of Public Works
Christopher Gobler, Natural Sciences Division Southampton College, Long Island University
Joe Guarino, Department of Environmental Control, Town of Babylon
Emerson Hasbrouck, Suffolk County Marine Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Stephen Jones, Suffolk County Department of Planning
Jeffrey Kassner, Department of Planning, Environment and Development, Town of Brookhaven
Greg King, South Shore Estuary Alliance
Henry Levine, Audubon Society
Ed Lynch, Suffolk County Department of Public Works
Sarah Meyland, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Vito Minei , Office of Ecology, Suffolk County Department of Health Services
Dan Morris, Open Space Council
Carole Neidich-Ryder, North Shore Audubon Society
Robert Nuzzi, Suffolk County Department of Health Services
Robert Nyman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Steve Papa, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Paul Ponessa, Nassau County Planning Commission
George Proios, Suffolk County Executive's Office
Lou Siegel, Science Department, Oceanside High School
Vincent Vario, Nassau County Planning Commission
John Waltz /James Mulligan, Department of Public Works, Nassau County
Robert Wenegonofsky, Department of Conservation and Waterways, Town of Hempstead
William Wise, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook
Brian Zimmerman, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service 		Citizens Advisory Committee
Jeff Fullmer, Chair, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Allan Aronoff, Brookhaven League of Women Voters
Forrest Clock, Islip Town Leaseholders Association
Hank Dam, Suffolk Alliance of Sportsmen, Inc.
Ed Davis, Great South Bay Audubon Society
Bill Fahey, Mastic Beach Property Owners Association
Ludwig Farr, Long Island Beach Buggy Association
Joe Kayal, member at large
Gil Kelley, Association of Marine Industries
Ed Kilgus, Empire State Marine Trades Association
Alan J. Leo, Open Space Council
Paul Lichtman, Uniondale Public Schools
John Lund, Fire Island Association
Tom McCloskey, Long Island Sierra Club
Dave Schaper, New York Seafood Council
Florence Sharkey, Brookhaven Bayman's Association
Ed Sheehan, South Shore Bayhouse Owners Association
Chris Spies, Fire Island Year-Round Residents Association
Diana Teta, South Country Alliance
Kimberly Zimmer, New York Sea Grant