Aquifer

About the Book

The Aquifer, life-sustaining drinking water for more than two million Long Islanders, is vulnerable to an underground toxic plume of unknown potential. Environmental Advocate Lee Marshall suspects that the old County landfill, recently closed, has placed the precious aquifer at risk. The nearby community of Bethview could become a ghost town. Marshall and his investigative paralegal, Calley McAin, have many questions. Time is running out. County Executive Jimmy Pellegrino has the answers, but he has dreams of occupying the governor’s mansion. Nothing is going to stop him...least of the all, the truth.

About the Author

AJ Maurino has been an attorney for more than twenty-five years. He has held appointed office in local government on Long Island in the fields of environmental protection and land use planning. He is presently a planning & environmental consultant to municipalities on Long Island. Aquifer is his first work of fiction and is based on his experiences with the federal Superfund Law, landfills, solid waste, pollution and water supplies.