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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, December 12, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
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Highland..........................................21
Letters to the Editor.......................10
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Opinion........................................... 24
Police Blotter...................................4
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Service Directory........................... 36
Sports............................................40
Developer fixing flooding on rail trail
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
WHAT: Plattekill Library Trustees
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHERE: Plattekill Library
2047 Rte. 32, Modena.
WHAT: Plattekill Zoning Board
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Plattekill Town Hall
1915 Rte. 44/55, Modena.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
WHAT: Marlborough Planning Board
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Marlborough Town Hall
21 Milton Tnpk, Milton.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
WHAT: Lloyd Town Board
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHERE: 12 Church St., Highland.
The developer of the Mountainside Woods housing project in Highland is in the process of installing a drainage system to prevent water
from flooding the Hudson Valley Rail Trail.
By MARK REYNOLDS
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In a November 26 letter, Lloyd Building
Department Director Dave Barton
informed David Weinberg, developer of
the Mountainside Woods housing project,
of his “extreme displeasure” in the lack
of action to stop the flooding that is
coming from the project site and out onto
the town’s pedestrian rail trail.
Barton informed Weinberg that his
failure to remedy this problem “with
the greatest haste,” would result in the
issuance of a total stop work order and
possible fines.
Weinberg took Barton’s directive to
heart and has been installing piping and
circular culverts to fix the problem.
Barton said the standing water just
down from the site is not raw sewage, but
acknowledged its foul odor.
“It’s actually been tested and it’s the
leaves and other natural stuff just rotting
there,” he said. “Some of those trees are
dying because of the water that is there,
but that is hopefully soon going to be
mitigated.”
Weinberg is shouldering the cost to
install a system of culverts and piping
that will bring any water coming off of
his site down along and eventually under
the rail trail and into the town’s storm
drain system at the juncture of Grove
Street and Phillips Avenue.
Piping and circular culverts are being installed along the rail trail by the developer of
Mountainside Woods to stop the flooding.