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Board OKs plans for Island Water Park; Walmart set to go

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The Riverhead Town Board voted on resolutions dealing with several big projects at its meeting Tuesday afternoon.

The board granted conditional site plan approval for Island Water Park’s cable-towed water skiing park proposal in Calverton.

The board also approved an excavating permit for the a Walmart planned on the west end of Route 58, where work is expected to begin soon.

And a public hearing is now set for a plan to build a gym in the former Woolworth building in downtown Riverhead. That hearing will be March 19, at the board’s 7 p.m. meeting.

News-Review reporter Tim Gannon reported live Tuesday.

Click below to see what transpired.