LIslanders weigh in...does your town have sewers or cesspools? (Babylon: disposal, taxes)
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It depends where you live. If your house is within the Southwest Sewer District (covers Babylon, West Babylon, West Islip, and others I cant remember) then you have sewers.
Some parts of Riverhead have sewers, others have cesspools.
It depends where you live. If your house is within the Southwest Sewer District (covers Babylon, West Babylon, West Islip, and others I cant remember) then you have sewers.
It's my understanding that not every home is connected in the area, although I would imagine most are by now.
Just because an area has sewer connections doesn't automatically mean a home is connected.
Just because an area has sewer connections doesn't automatically mean a home is connected.
In some areas yes it does, if the Town/Sewer District made it a requirement that all homes be connected to it by a certain target date. My brother lives in one of those areas (since the 1980s) which is within the Southwest Sewer District.
WE IN THE ISLIP PART OF RONKOMKOMA STILL HAVE CESSPOOLS HOWEVER OTHER AREA'S IN THE TOWN OF ISLIP HAVE SEWERS AS OF 15-20 YEARS AGO AND THEY PAY ADDITIONAL TAXES TO BE IN A SEWER DISTRICT.
Most of North Babylon has cesspools. However, the parts of North babylon South of the Southern State are hooked-up to sewers. If you buy an older home in North Babylon that has original cesspools they will need to be replaced.
Older cespools were constructed by digging a hole in the ground and building the basin with loose concrete blocks - which means they are weak and can and do collapse sometimes. Because of this I had my old cesspools filled in and new precast ones put in.
Is there an understandable web site out there that lists all the areas of Suffolk that are hooked up to sewers?
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Ronkonkoma Has Cesspools
