Suffolk County Legislator Lou D'Amaro [1] joined colleagues and community members to announce the approval of a sewering feasibility study [1] in the towns of Babylon and West Islip.

Legislator Lou D'Amaro at the Bergen Point Sewage Treatment Plant.The study will focus on sewer installation in the communities of Deer Park, North Babylon, Wyandanch and West Islip, which are adjacent to the existing Southwest Sewer District. D'Amaro, who was the prime sponsor of legislation [2] to fund the study, noted that the sewer expansion will ultimately hinge on its estimated tax burden. 

The expansion, if it does occur, would dovetail with a planned capacity increase of the Bergen Point Wastewater Treatment Plant and the sewer installation in Wyandanch Central Business District, which recently received federal, state and local funding.

In these communities, many view the installation of sewers as a necessity for economic development. The sewers could also allow for better protection of the county's drinking water supply, a single, underground aquifer that has been infiltrated by septic leaching over the years.