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Also in water quality news, Denise Civilletti reporting on RiverheadLocal.com that some Riverhead Water District customers in Calverton and Wading River have had rusty water flowing from their pipes in the past month, according to Water District Superintendent Frank Mancini, who said during Thursday's work session, quote, the system was disturbed without our knowledge and that caused the rusty water.

The rust is sediment in the pipes that gets churned up by a sudden large release of water such as when someone opens a fire hydrant.

I know they're planning to flush the mains this weekend, I think.

Data collected by the Environment America Research and Policy Center shows these chemicals were found throughout Long Island waterways, including the Peconic River, Manhasset Bay and Willets Creek.

High levels of PFAS detected in fish from Swan Pond in Calverton led to a fishing ban there.

The presence of these chemicals are in part due to manufacturers that dump their wastewater directly into nearby waterways.

At home, toilet paper, shaving cream, and makeup being flushed also allows forever chemicals to end up in surface water.

None of the water bodies cited in the report are drinking water sources, but the Suffolk County Department of Health Services has banned fishing from certain ponds where fish were found to be contaminated with PFAS.

The Peconic River locations are downstream from the former Grumman site in Calverton, where the company built and tested jets for the Navy in the 50s and 60s.

A plume of contamination has been spreading underground from that site toward the Peconic.

PFAS enters surface waters from directly dumping by manufacturers, wastewater discharges, and runoff from military facilities, such as the aforementioned former Grumman site in Calverton.

And finally, the Center for Advocacy, Support, and Transformation, in collaboration with Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital and the Town of Southhold, will host a free community health fair on Thursday, October 15th.

That's tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 6 p.m., at South Old Town's Peconic Recreation Center at 970 Peconic Lane in Peconic.

East Hampton Town officials quickly mobilized and got emergency clearance to remove the septic system, but not without taking another significant chunk out of the face of the bluff.

And finally, the Big Duck, the Grumman Plains in Calverton and other familiar Long Island landmarks will glow in teal, green and pink tonight, drawing attention to people living with metastatic breast cancer and the need for more research.

Denise Civilletti reporting on RiverheadLocal.com that the North Fork Breast Health Coalition is hosting its first local light-up NBC event this evening, joining a worldwide observance of Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.

Participants will meet at the Coalition's office at 185 Old Country Road in Riverhead at 6 o'clock for a caravan and photo tour of Riverhead area locations.

A watch party will follow at the Village Idiot at 7.30 with appetizers and a signature cocktail.

The global hashtag light-up NBC livestream It begins at 8 p.m. in addition to the Big Duck in Flanders and the Grumman Plains in Calverton.

Participating locations include the Jamesport Meeting House in Jamesport, All-Star Bowling Alley, Apple Honda and Seastar Ballroom in Riverhead, and Montauk Lighthouse in Montauk.

The event supports awareness and research through Mediviver.

It's time for us to stand down.

And I watched the Grumman base in Calverton, Long Island.

We were friends on RCN.

Our studios were probably a mile from there getting closed down.

At the Riverhead Charter School, Superintendent Raymond Ancrum said some students arrived worried about whether their families will remain intact.

The K-12 Charter School with campuses in Calverton and Northville instruct children from districts across eastern Long Island and is roughly 72 percent Latino or Hispanic, according to state data.

Reports of enforcement activity near a bus stop earlier this year heightened anxiety among parents and students, Ancrum said.

Staff have taken on expanded roles.

In Riverhead, four civic associations will host three forums this month featuring town supervisor Jerry Halpin and his challenger council member Ken Rothwell.

Denise Civilletti is reporting on RiverheadLocal.com, the Greater Calverton, Wading River, Greater Jamesport, and Heart of Riverhead Civic Associations.

are organizing the events at locations across town.

At each forum, the candidates are scheduled to answer questions submitted in advance about town issues and their goals for Riverhead.

Those forums are Thursday, October 15th at 5 p.m. at Riley Avenue School on Riley Avenue in Calverton.

You can email gcca1992 at email.com through October 11th.

to get your questions in to Greater Calverton and Wading River Civic Association's forum.

On the 17th of October at 10 a.m., Greater Jamesport Civic will have a forum at Jamesport Meeting House.

So when the Soviet Union fell and George Herbert Walker Bush cut the American defense budget, I was there.

I watched Northrop Grumman's Calverton facility close within six months.

F-16s flying, buzzing U.S. 25A in Riverhead, Long Island, too, closed in six months' time.

But the North Atlantic Treaty Organization kept going, kept treating, what was his name, Yeltsin, like he was Leonid Brezhnev or Joe Stalin.

Hey there, everyone, and welcome back to our show.

Our next guest joining us today is Jamie Barnett, who's in Calverton, New York, with her business called Imagine Anna's Dream.

How are you today?

Hi, I'm very well.