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More
pollution
potential?
New Windsor fuel plant project
raises new city fears
By WAYNE A. HALL
Newburgh City Manager Michael
Ciaravino just added his concerns about
the recently proposed garbage to the fuel
plant proposed for Stewart International
Airport property on the Avenue of the
Americas.
The proposal by BioHiTech to turn
garbage into fuel by means of a mostly
microbic breakdown process is used
successfully abroad and hailed where it’s
been tried as saving landfill space that’s
becoming scarce.
But what caught Ciaravino’s eye
is the proposed plant site’s potential
for pollution of Newburgh’s already
compromised drinking water source of
Washington Lake .
He says in an Aug. 29 letter to New
Windsor Planning Board chairman
Genero Argenio, there’s possible pollution
from an unnamed Class A steam serving
as a tributary to Silver Stream that flows
to Washington Lake after running through
and under the proposed garbage to the
proposed fuel pelletization BioHiTech
plant site at the airport.
The town of New Windsor planning
board has already noted the stream’s
location in scoping sessions about the
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Spreading awareness
Newburgh observes Overdose Awareness Day
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
In honor of Overdose Awareness
Day on Friday, the Hudson Valley
Community Services (HCVS) and Team
Newburgh hosted an event to spread
awareness and remember those who
have lost their lives to overdose.
“The goal is to educate the community
on the severity of the opioid epidemic
and promote the services available to
those struggling with addiction in the
community.” said Jennifer Brathwaite,
Education Director at HCVS. Many
organizations showed up to make their
services known to the public. The
crowd was a mixture of case workers,
recovering addicts and people looking
to change the stigma attached to drug
overdose.
In the crowd was Senator William J.
Larkin, hoping to bring some light on
the severity of the opioid epidemic in
Newburgh.
“We want to make it as easy as
possible to get drugs away from abusers,
said Larkin. “Events like this give us
the tools to do so. This is what unity
is about, cooperation and teamwork
always produces positive results.”
According to Dawn Wilkin, Director
of Prevention Services Catholic
Charities Community Services of
Orange, Sullivan, & Ulster, 221 people
have overdosed on opioids and were
revived by a Narcan Kit between April
2017 through April 2018 at St Luke’s
Hospital in Newburgh. Of the 221
people, 16 passed away.
“It is important to have [these] types
Regina Cieslak works with Team Newburgh to spread awareness and educate the
community on Opioid Awareness.
of community events,” said Wilkin. “We
have to bust the stigma attached to
overdose. It is a brain disease, that has
been proven through science and we
have to treat it as such.”
Wilkin works with community
outreach programs like Team Newburgh
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and organizations such as the HVCS to
create programs that help those who
have overdosed or have an addiction,
and to find new ways to prevent more
people from developing an addiction.
“At Team Newburgh our goal is to
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