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Suffolk wants land bank for polluted sites

March 17, 2012 8:25 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Legislator DuWayne Gregory, of the 15th Legislative District,

Photo credit: Newsday/Mahala Gaylord | Legislator DuWayne Gregory, of the 15th Legislative District, and chair of the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force addresses an audience at a hearing in Riverhead. (Sept. 22, 2009)

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It's Suffolk County's $20 million black hole.

There are 124 contaminated properties -- former gas stations, dry cleaners and junkyards -- on which the county has liens for back taxes but doesn't own. The county has not been able to collect property taxes on them, sometimes for decades. Moreover, Suffolk as required by law has forked over a total of $20 million to schools, towns and other taxing...

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