Caumsett and the Lloyd manor.
Wikipedia says the Matinecock sold 3,000 acres of what's now Lloyd Neck to English settlers in 1654; James Lloyd acquired the neck in 1676, and the Joseph Lloyd Manor House followed in the 1760s. Lloyd's Neck moved from Queens County to the Town of Huntington in 1886, and Lloyd Neck and West Neck incorporated together as Lloyd Harbor on August 16, 1926. In 1969 residents defeated a proposed LILCO nuclear plant; the Eberstadt estate became Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge. The village covers 10.6 square miles, 12% of it water.
The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 1,300 homes, with a median year built of 1966. 18% went up in the 1950s, 13% before 1940, and 27% after 1980. 90% are single-family detached houses, and 97% are owner-occupied.
So a typical house here has drain and water lines around 60 years old unless they've been replaced. Slow drains in several fixtures, a gurgling floor drain or rusty water from one tap are signs to have the main line and supply piping checked.
Oil to gas means new gas piping.
The ACS shows 17% of homes heat with utility gas and 76% with fuel oil. Switching means properly sized gas piping to the new equipment, and often to the water heater, range and dryer. We do the gas line work. We don't sell or deliver oil.
Cesspools and septic, mostly.
Laying Suffolk County's sewer-district map over the Census boundary shows none of the hamlet in a county sewer district, so most homes rely on cesspools or septic systems. We clear the line from the house to the system, but a full or failing cesspool is a job for a cesspool or septic contractor; we don't do cesspool work, and we don't install septic systems.
Flood risk.
Laying FEMA's current flood map over the Census boundary, about 19% of Lloyd Harbor is in the high-risk (1% annual chance) flood zone (13.5% in zone VE, 5.7% in zone AE; shares of the Census area, water included). If your water heater or gas appliances ever sat in flood water, have them checked before relighting.
Oil heat and long drain lines.
The Census counts 76% of Lloyd Harbor's homes heating with fuel oil. With big lots and no public sewer, a slow drain is often in the long line out to the cesspool or septic system rather than inside the house; we clear and repair the line, and send cesspool pumping or replacement to a cesspool contractor.
Water: Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA).
EPA's service-area map puts essentially all residents on the Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA); your bill is the final word. The main supplier's most recent 90th-percentile lead result was 1.3 ppb, under the 15 ppb action level; lead usually comes from a home's own pipes and fixtures, so results vary house to house. In EPA's UCMR 5 testing, the main supplier's highest single PFOA/PFOS result was 17 parts per trillion. EPA's 4 ppt limits apply as a running annual average starting in 2029, so one high sample is not a violation, but it's the kind of number a carbon filter is sized against. For a leak at the curb or in the street, call your water supplier (SCWA: (631) 698-9500). For anything on your side of the meter, call us.
Permits.
Lloyd Harbor is an incorporated village, so plumbing permits go through the Village of Lloyd Harbor's building department, not the town.
