By Chris McKennaOctober 12, 2007
Goshen -- 1:40 p.m. -- An appeals court ruling on Kiryas Joel’s controversial pipeline proposal has sided with Orange County by ordering the village to continue studying the potential environmental impact.The judges declared Kiryas Joel must answer more fully such questions as how the village or county would treat the increased volume of sewage that would eventually result from the water-supply project.The ruling by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court was signed Tuesday and released today. It essentially affirmed a 2005 ruling in state Supreme Court in Goshen.Kiryas Joel plans to build a 13-mile pipeline to tap New York City’s Catskill Aqueduct in New Windsor.
Village officials call it a long-term solution to the community’s ever-mounting water demand, one that would avoid competing with neighboring communities for groundwater.
But opponents waged a ferocious campaign against the project in 2004 and convinced the county government to sue Kiryas Joel.
The suit claimed that Kiryas Joel had conducted an inadequate environmental review.The principal issue is sewage treatment, although the appeals court also asked for further review of every other topic the county raised. One is the potential of the project to spur further growth in the already-booming community.
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Is this being overlooked? Are the County, Village & Town of Woodbury busily looking into their options, and strategizing over their next move? Hope they're all on the same page, and working together!!!
working together, too many politicians just looking out for themselves too make anything work around here, were all doomed!!!
Your all full of it!!!!!!!!!!!
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