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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, October 10, 2018
New Windsor dedicates Butter Hill Treatment Plant
By WAYNE A. HALL
When officials recently found a new
source of fresh, clean water for the town
of New Windsor, 400 feet down and under
100 feet of clay, town Supervisor George
Green declared the town had struck gold.
And thus he has declared its
independence on the town’s long-time
source for water, the New York City
Aqueduct, which is shutting down for
repairs and urged New Windsor to find
a substitute
Green and his water engineers had
already been looking.
They have found the super substitute,
a processing plant they’ve built on the
Butter Hill Waste Water Treatment Plant
in New Windsor.
Last week, the town just celebrated
opening a 5,500 square foot water
treatment plant on Forge Hill Road to
process the bounty of uncontaminated
water discovered deep in the ground.
It’s taken years of searching to find this
kind of abundant, clean and accessible
water, said Green.
It was Green and some of his friends
and town workers who over past years
reached high and low to find the right
water fit for New Windsor to modernize
the town’s water system.
Green was ecstatic during a recent
celebration of water independence at the
new plant.
He specially thanked those who rode
around the town many times to find
alternate sources of suitable water for
the town.
It’s a gleaming, white and gray plant
inside with huge white and red marked
Richard D. McGoey whose consulting firm did extensive mechanical and other planning for
the town of New Windsor’s Butter Hill water treatment facility, inspects the work last week.
processing equipment.
This new state of the art system has
the ability to deliver 6.4 million gallons of
water a day into distribution, more than
double the current need of the town.
The new plant has been tested and
found no evidence of
cancer-causing
PFOs and PFOAs such as those that shut
down Washington Lake as a Newburgh
city drinking water reservoir.
Deputy New York City water
department spokesman Adam Bosch said
the aqueduct cleansing project “is a huge
deal that we’ve been talking to them about
so we could do what we need to do to clean
out the aqueduct.”
And New Windsor didn’t need to be told
again by New York City water officials to
get a move on to find another source of
water.
The new New Windsor treatment
plant is up and running. The aqueduct
is shutting down in several weeks. New
Windsor officials were way ahead of the
city time li ne, said Green outside the
glittering new water treatment building
on Forge Hill Road.
Hailed as the best water available, the
Catskill Aqueduct System is renowned
for the quality of its water. But the new
$24 million new plant will produce equal
results if not better, town officials said.
“I do have to thank a lot of people,”
added Green, who, years ago, began the
search for alternate source of water for
the constantly growing town of New
Windsor.
“This is 12 years of my life dedicated to
this building,” said Green.
Truly though this was a team effort he
described whose start was some years
ago when Green planned for a new water
source, traveling around various bodies
of local water that would serve the town’s
needs. But none really fit the bill. So the
decision was made to build one and treat
the water in a town run plant.
“We did it together and you see the
results,” said Green, with a nod to the
gleaming plant that’s got enough capacity
for processing 20 million gallons a day.
The town will no longer pay two million
dollars a year for New York City aqueduct
water. It was Green’s decision to get off
the Catskill Aqueduct.
The New Windsor treatment plant was
a key to construction.
“I have to thank a lot of people,” said
Green giving thanks to getting this
building done. “And you see the results.”
A big nod goes to the consulting
engineers, McGoey, Hauser and Edsall,
said Green.
Independent testing shows the town
treated water meets or exceeds federal
and local water standards.
And Green used union labor.
“The supervisor came to us with with a
labor agreement to use union labor and
importantly is was done on time,” said
Local 17 of the Laborers Union Business
Manger Todd DiOrio.
Mount instituting new protocol for mold detection
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
The Freshmen girls at Mount Saint
Mary College had a memorable first
month on campus as their dorm hall was
evacuated a month into the semester.
Sakac Hall was closed down on September
23 due to mold found in the building.
The school has placed students in
various locations, out of the 214 students
a majority were placed in hotels in
Newburgh and Fishkill from September
23 until September 28. Their belongings
were to be stored in storage units on
campus.
For Elizabeth Ellsworth a member
of the women’s soccer team it was
Sakac Hall on the campus of Mount Saint Mary College was evacuated after the discovery of
mold on Sept. 23.
aggravating because there was no say in
where she or her teammates were placed.
Some girls on the team were placed in
Fishkill about 20 minutes away from
campus.
“I was placed in a hotel in Fishkill,”
said Kayla Davis, a freshman on the
women’s soccer team. “I asked to stay
on campus because it was not possible
for me to travel back and forth to make
it to campus on time for practice and my
classes. They were unhelpful. I was lucky
I was able to trade my spot with some
other girls. Other girls on the team have
been sleeping on people’s floors because
the trip is too far, or there is not a shuttle
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