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Builder stresses importance of sewers on Island

Quick ReadConstruction company owner Jack Kulka is spreading the word about how Hauppauge Industrial Park businesses are leaving septic tanks behind for a sewer system hookup.

Jack Kulka, a founder of the Hauppauge Industrial

Photo credit: Newsday, 2005 / David L. Pokress | Jack Kulka, a founder of the Hauppauge Industrial Association. (2005)

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'The future of Long Island is sewers," said Jack Kulka, a founding member of the Hauppauge Industrial Association-Long Island, with characteristic certainty and bluntness.

Kulka, owner of Kulka Construction Corp. of Hauppauge, should know. He worked for a contractor at the Hauppauge Industrial Park when most of it was just sandhills in the mid-1960s.

The park, the second-largest industrial...

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