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Concerned Patchogue residents have been waging a five-year battle against Suffolk County to make Lake Patchogue accessible to the public.

Village of Patchogue residents like Phil Butler argue that the lake should be opened to the public because of its beauty.

The county public works commissioner Gil Anderson says a drainpipe from the lake fed by the Patchogue River poses a safety hazard. ?If we open it up to the public, there is a potential, without properly covering it, for someone to fall in and actually get swept into the piping system."

Any improvements to the lake require the approval of the village as well as the county and the state DEC.

Concerned Patchogue residents have been waging a five-year battle against Suffolk County to make Lake Patchogue accessible to the public.  Village of Patchogue residents like Phil Butler argue that the

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Checking our forecast now, Rich Hoffman is back with us last night was really bad. So people waking up right now wondering what's going on out there. Yeah, the Christmas lights went out from all the rain and the sockets there and some decorations down. I saw her driving in this morning a lot of wet roads and it's kind of that sneaky flooding where it's on the side of the roads, it's really dark out there and we're going to be watching that we still have some pockets of a steadier rain right now. And as we go throughout the rest of the morning, we're going to start to improve our weather and we have snow north and west of Long Island. So it is turning colder here for you around the rest of today. Let's take a look at your Doppler radar this morning. You can see the steadier rain more out towards the east end right now with the yellow. So anytime you see yellow in our Doppler radar, that's a steadier rain with some pockets of heavier rain, you can see some of that right now from Southampton over Shelter Island towards or point moving towards East Hampton and Springs. Again, there is that sneaky flooding with some of the sides of the roads being flooded and again, give yourself extra travel time here this morning. With that wet weather, you can see from riverhead to Mattituck, Southampton over to Mastic. We are watching the rainy conditions. The last advisory just expired. We did have a flood advisory until 445 this morning. Now there are no advice or warning The high wind warning, the flood watts, the wind advisory all have been dropped right now. We're just looking at steadier showers here in Roslyn or Brookville Hicksville, Levittown, East Massapequa over towards uh Hempstead to Elmont to uh areas of Kings Point. We're looking at the soggy conditions, still looking at some wind gusts right now, around 30 MPH, we had some wind gusts last night, 40 to 50 MPH. And you will notice over the next couple of hours as the cold air moves in, still some wind gusts close to 40 MPH. Now, temperatures are in the forties. They've been dropping all night long. We dropped 13 degrees last night once the cold front has passed. And you can see this morning at the bus stop in Seaford 44 degrees 47 later today. But with a gusty wind, it's got a chill to the air this afternoon, rainy conditions. The rain will start to taper off west to east over Long Island between eight and 11 o'clock this morning. This afternoon, sunshine. A gusty wind. Temperatures are in the forties. Tomorrow morning, temperatures are dropping into the upper twenties to around 30 Tuesday, mostly chilly. A high of 44. So the rain will start to taper off over the next couple of hours. Improving weather conditions. Sunshine this afternoon at 47 watch out for wet roads this morning and exceed Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday dry into Saturday. More wet weather coming in Sunday into Monday.

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Storm brings heavy downpours & high, gusty winds through the morning. Stay with News 12 for updates.

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