Kiryas Joel has come out with an amended FEIS on their pipeline plan. Now we're hearing about a proposed link up of water systems throughout Orange County (see below).
Good idea? Bad idea? Who's paying attention?
Orange County study calls for 19 water system links
By Chris Mckenna
Times Herald-Record
March 25, 2009 6:00 AM
GOSHEN — Orange County is proposing that 19 links be built among municipal water systems to help those with potential shortages, channel development and share supplies during droughts and other emergencies.
By Chris Mckenna
Times Herald-Record
March 25, 2009 6:00 AM
GOSHEN — Orange County is proposing that 19 links be built among municipal water systems to help those with potential shortages, channel development and share supplies during droughts and other emergencies.
The so-called interconnections are among the recommendations in a plan the Water Authority has developed to safeguard the patchwork of wells, reservoirs and other resources that supply drinking water to almost three-quarters of the county's population.
The 245-page draft projects that municipalities will have plenty of water overall to keep pace with population growth through 2018, the endpoint of the study three consulting firms did for the authority.
But supplies will vary widely from one municipality to another by that time: Some will be flush with water while as many as seven could either run short or barely satisfy demand, according to the plan.
"We have plenty of water, but it's not necessarily in the right locations," said Planning Commissioner David Church, whose department oversees the authority.
The plan suggests erecting more storage tanks and strengthening conservation efforts. But it also provides the most detailed proposal to date for a series of regional water systems — or miniloops — that County Executive Ed Diana has long touted.
These scattered connections would be a more modest successor to a colossal water-loop idea the county conceived decades ago, only to see it collapse in the early '90s because of its high cost and lack of support from the municipalities.
The plan calls for immediate action on seven of those links, including one that would stretch 4.5 miles to connect the water-rich Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson with the Village of Washingtonville, which is expected to run low within a decade.
Shortages were also foreseen in the Villages of Goshen, Highland Falls, Monroe, Kiryas Joel and the cities of Middletown and Newburgh — although the plan acknowledges potential errors in the calculations for Newburgh, Middletown and Highland Falls.
7 comments:
Would this be like spending taxpayer money to bring more water to poor KJ? I don't see how this could fly with all the bickering going on around here.
It will "fly" you dope, if we sit on our asses and do nothing! Who can respond to this EIS and make a difference?
Remarkable coincidence that just when KJ is moving forward again with the Pipeline the County comes out with water loop jr. Or is it?
Eddie Diana has been in their pocket for years!!! and he is up for re-election. We should show him that the people outside of KJ can be a voting block too!!!Whoever is running against him, even if it a trained monkey, please vote for the monkey.
This is troubling, since it clearly is being spun as a county-wide plan to "help" all of us. While it should be looked at for its merits, I don't see how any community should be expected to feed its water into a system that rewards poor environmental management and props up unsustainable growth.
Perhaps the Uncle can provide people with information on how to get copies of this proposal, and the easiest ways to comment once that is an option.
Hey Mr. 7%,
Can you please pick up the political sign at the corner of Route 32 and County Route 105?
As chairman isn't it your responsibility to make sure all the signs were removed?
Woodbury Resident
Anyone can (and should)respond to the EIS. Both the Village and the Town have CD copies. It is unknown is hard copies were received as well. The libraries as of yet do not have copies for public review (even though part of the SEQR law).
KJ is also supposed to post a copy of the document on the web (also the law). I haven't found it yet.
Kieran, anyone can respond to the County pipeline proposal.
It can be found on the web at:
waterauthority.orangecountygov.com or call the Water Authority at
615-3868. I plan on calling to request copies be placed in all the public libraries around the county.
Coincidence that the County "loop system" and the KJ Amended EIS for the Aqueduct connection came out at the same time - NOT!!!!!
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