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State of the Town Address - February 25th, 2025

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Northport Harbor Water Quality Protection Inter-Municipal Council

Signing the joint agreement creating the Northport Harbor Water Quality Inter-Municipal Council. Seated (l-r): Asharoken Mayor Gregory Letica; Huntington Supervisor Frank P. Petrone; Northport Mayor George Doll. Standing (l-r): Asharoken Deputy Mayor Mary P. Pierce; Adrienne Esposito, co-chair of the Northport Harbor Water Quality Protection Committee; Huntington Councilwoman Susan A. Berland; Northport Deputy Mayor Henry Tobin; Northport Trustee Damon McMullen.
 
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In the fall of 2014, the Town of Huntington and Villages of Northport and Asharoken signed a historic agreement that allows the three municipalities to act jointly on measure that will improve and protect water quality in the shared coastal waters of the Northport Harbor & Bay Complex.

The agreement creates the six-member Northport Harbor Water Quality Protection Inter-Municipal Council, whose members will include the Supervisor, the two Mayors and one additional representative from each of the three respective municipalities.

It will have the legal authority to apply for state and federal funds in order to conduct studies, develop management plans, provide educational services and coordinate water quality protection and enhancement programs.

The Northport Harbor Inter-Municipal Council (IMC) was one of the key recommendations in the Northport Harbor Water Quality Protection Committee’s Action Matrix.  

Both the Federal Government, under the Clean Water Act, and the State Government under its SPEDS permit and Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems, urge local governments with water bodies that fall under joint shared jurisdiction to enter formal partnerships like this as a means of maintaining cleaner, safer shared water bodies.