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JANUARY 10 - 16, 2018
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
City’s new water plant goes online
Switch back to Washington Lake expected soon
Meyers
named
New
Windsor
justice
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The city’s new water treatment plant is capable of producing 8.8 million gallons of clean water per day. (City Water Superintendent
Wayne Vradenburgh is pictured.)
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
It’s official. The city’s new water
filtration plant is operational after
more than a year of construction at the
treatment facility on Little Britain Road.
“We are proud to announce that the
City of Newburgh is officially producing
water through its brand-new, state-of-
the-art water treatment plant,” the City
Manager’s Office said in a statement last
week. “We have the potential for some of
the best drinking water, if not in the
state, then in the nation,” City Manager
Michael Ciaravino said at Newburgh
City Hall on Monday.
The plant’s granular-activated carbon
filtration system is designed not only
to filter out perfluorooctane sulfonate
(PFOS) and related chemicals, but also
to prevent endocrine disrupters – which
can wreak havoc on the body’s hormonal
functions - from entering into the city’s
water supply, Ciaravino said.
“It’s a very robust system,” said
Martin Brand, deputy commissioner for
remediation at the state Department of
Environmental Conservation, speaking
before the city council. Brand said the
plant is capable of producing gallons
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George Meyers was named to a justice
seat in the Town of New Windsor this
month, sworn-in surrounded by friends
and family at a ceremony at New Windsor
Town Hall.
Meyers held his right hand up,
promising to support the Constitution of
the United States, and the Constitution of
the State of New York, and to faithfully
discharge the duties of town justice to
the best of his abilities. “So help me God,”
he said.
The small crowd applauded as the
ceremony came to a close. “I hired him
as a police officer... and now as a town
justice,” Town Supervisor George Green
said later that evening.
Meyers’ appointment was decided
on by the New Windsor Town Council
after a tie was declared in the town-
justice race in November, when Meyers
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