What About Water?

What compounds are present in your drinking water? And at what concentrations do we find these compounds? All of this information and more is published every six months in our Consumer Confidence Report. Host Jeff Szabo sits down with SCWA Laboratory Manager Chris Niebling to learn more about the Consumer Confidence Report, where to find it, and how to interpret it.  Correspondent Seth Wallach hit...

Not everyone gets their water from a municipal supplier...  What does it mean to be on a private well? What is the difference between having public water vs. relying on your own well?  What are the concerns, and is your water safe?  We spoke to the experts to get you the answers.   Host Jeff Szabo sits down with Jason Hime, a Principal Public Health Engineer at the Suffolk County Department of Hea...

Why is it important for Long Islanders to conserve water?  What are the easiest and most effective ways to conserve? Host Jeff Szabo sits down with SCWA Director of Communications Tim Motz about his work with the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection (LICAP) and their "Our Water Our Lives" water conservation education and outreach campaign (4:14). Jeff also speaks with Suffolk Co...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, including SCWA and the way we do business. Learn what changed for us and how we made it through, as host Jeff Szabo talks with employees from just about every SCWA department and gets their perspective. Correspondent Seth Wallach visits South Shore University Hospital (formally Southside Hospital) in Bay Shore to learn how SCWA helped the hospital thro...

Host Jeff Szabo visits SCWA's state-of-the-art water testing laboratory in Hauppauge to follow the typical path of an SCWA water sample. Jeff speaks with top lab staff about their work to keep Suffolk County's water safe, including Director of Water Quality and Laboratory Services Kevin Durk, Laboratory Managers Tom Schneider and Chris Niebling ( 3:40 ​). Supervisor of Bacteriology &...

In our first episode we discuss where your water comes from.  Our host,  SCWA Chief Executive Officer Jeff Szabo talks to Lead Hydrogeologist Ty Fuller. We also sit down with SCWA Chairman Patrick Halpin to talk about how the Suffolk County Water Authority came to be, why it is needed, what some of our greatest challenges are, and what's next?  Correspondent Seth Wallach hits the streets to f...