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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
More toxins?
Equipment malfunction causes
water contamination
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
“ I want Newburgh to shine;
I want Newburgh to shine
like it was; I want Newburgh
to shine the way it did
when I was a little kid, and
nothing’s impossible.”
Frederica Warner
1917-2019
The City of Newburgh sustained additional
contamination in its water supply from Stewart Air
National Guard Base on Saturday. The water was
contaminated by a C6 foam that was released into a
retention pond and overflowed into Silver Stream, a
tributary to Washington Lake.
The C6 foam is a replacement for the previous
firefighting foams that caused the Washington Lake
contamination in 2016. The city issued a press release
on Sunday informing
residents
of
the
contamination.
A c c o r d i n g
to the DEC the
contamination was
released
from
a
hangar owned by
Atlantic
Aviation
after an equipment
malfunction.
The
contamination affects
Washington
Lake,
but it does not affect
the city’s source of
drinking water. City
Karen Meija
Manager, Joe Donat
reminds
residents
Councilwoman
the city is not on
Washington
Lake,
Newburgh is currently supplied by Brown’s Pond which
is not linked to the contamination.
“It is beyond comprehension how responsible parties
continue to disregard the safety and health of over 30,000
people,” wrote Councilwoman Karen Mejia in a Facebook
post on Sunday. “We demand full transparency over the
composition and amount of toxic pollutants that have
been released into our watershed. Responsible parties
“ I t is beyond
comprehension
how responsible
parties continue to
disregard the safety
and health of over
30,000 people.”
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