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Chadwick
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upgrade
Town of Newburgh to
get $1.8M to improve
water quality
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Vol. 30, No 13
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MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 2018
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ONE DOLLAR
SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
City Hall in dire shape
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Newburgh’s City Hall building is in
rough shape, city code enforcement
officials say. The building has structural
and electrical issues that require
immediate attention. And, if lead or
asbestos is found during the course of
needed work, staff may have to vacate the
building.
“Chief Horton has laid down, as a
condition of our continued occupation
of 83 Broadway… that we need to have
certification done by a structural engineer
that says we can continue to occupy this
building,” said City Manager Michael
Ciaravino at City Hall last week.
The building issues are serious, city
Assistant Fire Chief and Interim Building
Inspector Bill Horton said. They include
electrical problems and structural issues
that “cause the building to continually
shift,” he said.
“Two years ago, they started noticing
some settling on the southeast corner of
the building,” Horton said Tuesday, and
some cracked joists were found. “Fifteen
to 18 years ago they did renovations
at City Hall. There had been a second
staircase in the back,” on the southeast
side of the building, he explained. “When
they removed that staircase, it turned out
to be more of a support structure. So, the
building started settling toward that void
space.”
The city Department of Public Works
built temporary shoring in the basement
and on the first three floors of the four-
floor building to address the problem,
he said. “Recently, there seems to be
additional settling going on,” Horton said,
as well as rotting around windows facing
Grand Street.
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March draws thousands
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The Town of Newburgh will receive
$1.8 million from the New York City
Department of Environmental Protection
for improvements to the water-filtration
system at Chadwick Lake. The lake
reservoir will serve as the town’s primary
source of drinking water during the
shutdown of the Delaware Aqueduct in
2022.
“They want to make sure communities
that buy water from them can be self-
sufficient during the shutdown,” said
Town of Newburgh Supervisor Gil
Piaquadio.
Currently, the town relies on both
the lake and the Delaware Aqueduct for
drinking water. The aqueduct is scheduled
to close down for more than six months
while a new bypass is constructed as part
of the aqueduct system under the Hudson
River.
“To respond to the demand for water,
Brian Wolfe
Continued on page 46
Nearly 8,000 people attended the “March for Our Lives,” Saturday at the Walkway Over the Hudson. Story on page 2.
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