Baldwin residents desperate for help after sewage flood
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Richard Barone, left, and his neighbor Mike Beharovic, right, try to avoid the smell of sewage inside of Barone's Barnes Avenue home in Baldwin. A layer of toilet paper combined with raw sewage and salt water from the tidal surge during superstorm Sandy flooded their homes and coated the neighborhood. (Nov. 13, 2012)
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Dozens of homes in a Baldwin neighborhood were flooded with raw sewage when superstorm Sandy roared ashore, and two weeks later weary residents are still waiting for help.
The search for assistance and answers to questions has become a frustrated series of calls and requests to town, county, state and federal agencies, they said.
The Town of Hempstead said the sewage problem is a county...
