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Brookhaven Town officials and Suffolk County Legis. Rudy Sunderman plan to call on the county to redirect $26.4 million reserved for a Connetquot sewer district in Great River, which failed at the polls last night, to fund Phase III of the four-phased Mastic-Shirley sewer plan.
Mastic residents voted 414-71 to accept $191.3 million in federal and state grants for a new sewer district, a move officials say will be an economic and environmental boon to the region.
A press conference was initially scheduled for noon Wednesday about the request for funds — with Sunderman joined by Supervisor Ed Romaine and Councilman Dan Panico — but that has been put off until an undetermined date, a Brookhaven spokesman said.
Peter Scully, a spokesman for Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, was not available for comment Wednesday morning, but told Newsday the county would look at alternate ways to use the $26.4 million proposed for the Great River project.
