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Vol. 31, No. 11
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MARCH 13 - 19, 2019
Central Hudson announced in a
presentation to the City Council it will
be in the City of Newburgh for the
next ten years replacing gas lines. The
organization is known for ripping up the
citys roads and leaving many headaches
in its path for city of Newburgh residents.
“We had an agreement for the past two
years and have replaced a minimum of 15
miles above the minimum each month,”
said Thomas Palmer, Superintendent of
Gas Transmission & Distribution. “Based
on the pace that we are going at, we will
be completed in eight to 10 years.”
According to Palmer the replacements
are necessary to prevent leaks and
create a safe environment for residents.
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
City’s gas line replacements to continue
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
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Councilmembers were apprehensive of
the plans for Central Hudson to come in
again and tear up the roads.
“When you were up in the heights two
summers ago on my block it wasn’t a good
experience for the community, it was
really bad,” said Councilwoman Romona
Monteverde. “I had to get on the phone
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BioHiTech
scraps
NW project
By WAYNE A. HALL
BioHiTech America, the trash to
energy company that sought to operate
a proposed solid waste facility at Stewart
International Airport has dropped its
$35-million plan for Stewart and is now
seeking another site in Orange County
or perhaps elsewhere in this area, said
company project director Dennis Soriano.
Soriano said he is looking for another
suitable location for the company’s unique
microbial digestion system process that’s
an “alternative to traditional landfills.”
He has at least one candidate, he said
but wouldn’t name it.
New Windsor officials returned $66,000
last week to BioHiTech Global and
canceled the sales agreement between the
town and BioHiTech Global.
The BioHiTech process depends on
biological decay to digest garbage and
render odors neutral in the process.
Soriano said while human oversight is
key the process is performed by digesting
microbial digesters doing most of the
work converting the trash to energy.
BioHiTech was unable to fully convince
the New Windsor planning board that
increased traffic from trucks to and from
the airport could be accommodated by
the older road system at the airport.
Polluted Washington Lake also
became an issue too in developing the
current location for BioHiTech because
an unnamed stream that feeds polluted
Washington Lake also runs under and
around the site.
Meanwhile a new BioHiTec plant
just this month started operations in
Martinsburg, West Virginia.