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Oh, it's even better. Because of nitrogen blooms in the bay, in many places, you need to run your own *private* sewer - an advanced septic system with an always-on electric aerator that makes your house vibrate at the brown-note frequency that movie sound designers love

Oh, can I mention that Long Island gets the entirety of its water from groundwater supplies? And that there's a massive plume of pollution centered around an industrial site full of forever chemicals in bethpage?

I am aware of no fewer than three extremely wealthy counties where LNG backup generators are absolute necessities in parts because the substation has needed to be expanded for 50 years

I think that septic system capacity was a justification for minimum lot sizes. If you want to ban denser development, then staying off sewer is a way to do so. Same with Santa Barbara not wanting to hook up to State Water Project. If they are limited to local rainfall and aquifer, they can't build

a few years ago Suffolk passed a sales tax increase to fund sewer construction

Mostly being NIMBYs. My ancestral land is very exhausting

Yeeeeeeeeah that's Picc for you.

Piccirillo is also a main subject of that Newsday story today about his efforts to block anything that's not single-family housing in Suffolk

It's even more fun when you consider they get most of their water from below their own feet. They'd rather drink their own shit than allow a few more neighbors.

Many parts of the city don't have FiOS, but yes. Long Island shows very little interest in expanding its sewer system beyond what it inherited except when it comes to using it as a reason to not build anything.

Well that's good that they don't have natgas. We should be phasing that out anyways.

Where I lived in Italy - Padova - there was a septic tank for our 6-plex. Always seemed weird to me, but that's how it was

yea most people don’t live there. i assume we’re talking about 75% of people not area

A lot of that denser area is still unsewered.

Suburban = 500-5000 ppl/sqmi Exurban = 150-500 Rural = <150 A lot of the low end on the map is still suburban