Featured in Municipal Sewer & Water Magazine, October 2011 Issue: More than half the sewer lines in Great Neck, N.Y., are nearly a century old. But like a spry senior citizen who keeps trim by working out daily, they seem younger than they are.
The secret? “Constant vigilance,” as Harry Potter’s mentor and hunter of evil wizards Mad-Eye Moody might say. Or in the plainer words of Christopher Murphy, superintendent of the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District, “We have a very aggressive preventive maintenance program.”
For the last eight years, sewers in the district have been on a rigorous cleaning and inspection schedule. The program has cut sewer backups in the Long Island community. And that’s just one of several measures the district has taken to make sure its system is as clean and efficient as possible. Click here to learn more.
