Water table on some parts of LI at record levels
Quick ReadIn parts of Smithtown and Central Islip, water levels appear to have risen from .23 feet to 2.46 feet just in the past month.
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Measurements taken last week at more than 40 wells in flood-prone parts of Long Island show the water table at those sites has risen up to 2 1/2 feet in the last year.
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey checked monitoring wells in Riverhead, Central Suffolk and Southwestern and Central Nassau and found levels in some wells are the highest on record.
The water table had risen...
