Sewer Hookups & Line Repair in Huntington Station, NYThe New York Avenue Zone

Suffolk County's sewer-district map, laid over the Census boundary, puts only about 5% of the hamlet's area inside an active sewer district, a corner of the Town of Huntington's own district. The same map shows a proposed Huntington Station district covering about 2% more. Everything else drains to cesspools or septic systems.

• A new house sewer from the building to the street connection. On many lots the waste line leaves the house toward the cesspool in the back or side yard, so it has to be rerouted toward the street. We do this part.
• Inside the house, the drain may need to exit through a different wall, and some houses need a pump if fixtures sit below the street sewer. We check elevations before we start.
• The old cesspool, which local reports say has to be abandoned when you connect. That's cesspool work, which we don't do, so plan on a separate contractor for that part.
• A Town of Huntington permit. The town plumbing code requires one to install, repair or modify plumbing. Owners of one- and two-family homes may do their own plumbing, but not gas piping.

Our overlay of FEMA's flood map puts none of the hamlet in the high-risk flood zone, so storm-tide sewer backups aren't the concern here. Once the new zone is running, a backup in a connected house will be either the house line or the district main.