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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
NW fuel plant plan raises concerns
By WAYNE A. HALL
Citing possible “significant adverse impacts on the
environment” by a
proposed $35-million BioHiTech
America’s garbage to fuel processing plant planned for 12
acres of New Windsor land, the New Windsor Planning
Board voted July 17 to require an in-depth project study.
The study under the state New York State Environmental
Quality Review Act requirements will be an in depth look
at the project’s environmental impacts, including air
emissions and the proposed plant’s truck traffic using
Stewart International Airport roads whose traffic counts
are growing from increasing numbers of passengers to
Stewart International Airport.
BioHiTech has proposed a 69,000-square-foot building
on 12 acres of town-owned land on Avenue of the
Americas. Two of the planning board’s key concerns
about the proposed garbage to fuel plant, said planning
board chairman Jerry Argenio are “that odor thing”
and the BioHiTech’s truck traffic possible conflicts with
airport interior traffic and traffic on Route 207.
BioHiTech’s project’s proposal estimates truck traffic
at 40 daily incoming trucks and 15 leaving the proposed
69,000-square-foot BioHiTech processing plant at Stewart.
That would amount to eight trucks an hour in and out
on a five or six-day operation.
He described the trucks as “normal collection trucks
like those running on your street.”
As for the proposed plant’s emissions they are
insignificant, says the company’s literature.
“It’s like enhanced composting, a completely biological
process with no combustion and there’s no burning,
no additives. It’s a pretty simple process,” company
spokesman Dennis Soriano told planning board members
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M ovie N ight
Brian Wolfe
A crowd gathered on the Safe Harbors Green last week for the children’s film festival. The film Coco will be shown there this Thursday at dusk.
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