Editing Sag Harbor, New York (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Sag_Harbor_Bay_and_Long_Wharf_(Sag_Harbor,_New_York)_001.jpg|alt=view from sandy shoreline out into the water with moored sailboat in the distance and the wharf on the right|thumb|Sag Harbor Bay and Long Wharf]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has an area of {{convert|6.0|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|4.7|km2|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|1.4|km2|order=flip}}, or 22.44%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3664485| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212191002/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3664485| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Sag Harbor village, New York| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name="GR1">{{cite web |date=February 12, 2011 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |access-date=April 23, 2011 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

In the village of Sag Harbor, fresh drinking water was obtained from digging wells to support the town's population. “The original source of water supply was secured from four dug wells in the southern part of the village of Sag Harbor”.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=American Water Works Association|year=1945|volume=37|issue=12|series=12 |pages=1355–1360|jstor=23353299|oclc=5547582630|title=Sag Harbor, New York—Survival and Retirement Experience With Water Works Facilities: As of December 31, 1940|issn=0003-150X|location=New York, NY|doi=10.1002/j.1551-8833.1945.tb20415.x}}</ref> As Sag Harbor's population has increased, the village has had to start bringing in fresh water from pipe lines.

As in many areas, the village practice of running sewage and storm water into the bays of Sag Harbor had to change. Sewage from the village of Sag Harbor is processed by the Department of Public Works, Wastewater Treatment Plant. It uses "chlorine to kill bacteria" before [sewage] enters the bay. By 2014, the village was using an ultra-violet system to kill the bacteria.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wastewater Treatment Plant|url=http://sagharborny.gov/departments/wastewater-treatment-plant/|publisher=Village of Sag Harbor|access-date=February 23, 2014}}</ref>

=== Topography ===
The majority of Sag Harbor lies on a flat, sandy coastal plain which makes up much of southern Long Island and extends along the southern coast of the island. It is the remains of a glacial moraine. Small hills rise up from the shore at about {{convert|0.3|mi}} inland. Knolls and hills are dominated mostly by Red and Scarlet [[oak tree]]s, which are interspersed with pitch and white pines. On many of the protected bay shores, wetlands and dune ecosystems dominate the land.