(Long Island, NY) Governor Cuomo hosted a groundbreaking event at Stonybrook University yesterday morning to announce a multi-pronged New York State strategy to protect critical water resources. The strategy targets four essential goals, including a $6 Million investment in groundwater analysis across Long Island, creating a statewide water quality rapid response team, multi million dollar investment in wastewater treatment infrastructure and technology, and the first-ever NYS regulations of mulching facilities .
At yesterday morning’s event both Governor Cuomo and County Executive Bellone praised Anna Throne-Holst’s leadership on clean water issues and mitigation strategies.
Governor Cuomo said “I want to recognize the great leadership of Anna Throne-Holst on the issue of clean water. Anna has done a fantastic job in helping bring the Clean Water Technology Center to Stony Brook University. This center will help protect the environment while creating high-quality jobs on Long Island.”
County Executive Bellone said, “I want to thank Anna Throne-Holst for her incredible leadership on working to clean up our water, and for being such a great partner on this critical issue. Anna took the lead on bringing the Clean Water Center to Stony Brook and has been proactive in addressing the nitrogen loading in our drinking water.”
Anna Throne-Holst is credited with bringing the New York State Clean Water and Technology Center to Stony Brook University. The Center will address detrimental nitrogen loading in our ground and surface water. This institution will be the first of it’s kind in New York and serves as a model for similar efforts in areas plagued by this issue.
Anna, in turn, praised the Governor for his important leadership, and added her support for addressing the concerns around mulching facilities and the risk they pose to the area. “On the East End, and other areas of Long Island, we have a growing concern for how this particular form of pathogen loading may be affecting our ground and drinking water. I thank the Governor for recognizing and working to address this new threat” she said. “Working with both the Governor and County Executive Steve Bellone has been an extremely rewarding exercise in different levels of government coming together to most effectively problem solve on important issues affecting the whole region. I thank them both”, she said in closing.
Anna Throne-Holst is the former Southampton Town Supervisor and a working mother of four children – Nicholas, Max, Sebastian and Karess. She is running for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin.
