With concerns growing about spiking nitrogen levels in local waters and harmful algal blooms depleting oxygen in the Peconic River, RiverheadLOCAL took an inside tour of the Riverhead Sewage Treatment Plant, which discharges about 800,000 gallons per day of treated sewage effluent into the Peconic River.
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