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Vol. 14, No 37 3 SEPTEMBER 13 - 19, 2017
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
‘We will always remember’
Lloyd marks 16th anniversary of 9-11
Tunneling
under
Hudson
River begins
Project to fix Delaware
Aqueduct leaks
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
The American Legion Auxiliary joined in singing “God Bless America” at Monday’s 9-11 Memorial Ceremony in Highland
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
On Monday evening, under a
crystal clear blue sky, Town of Lloyd
officials, Ulster County and NY State
representatives and local residents
gathered in front of the firehouse on
Milton Avenue to remember the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001 and to
honor the memory of 2,996 individuals
who were lost on that fateful day.
Supervisor Paul Hansut welcomed
everyone to the solemn ceremony that
the Town of Lloyd holds every year.
To open the ceremony members
of Boy Scout Troops 70 and 193, Cub
Scout Troop 70 and Girl Scouts led in
the Pledge of Allegiance followed by
the National Anthem sung by Jessica
Avampato. Leo Bozydaj then released
a flock of white doves as symbols of
peace.
Fr. John Lynch, of St. Augustine
Church, offered an invocation.
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Last Friday, the NYC Department of
Environmental Protection [DEP] held
a press conference to announce that
tunneling will soon begin on a 2.5 mile
bypass tunnel that will run 600 feet under
the Hudson River from Newburgh to
Wappingers Falls in order to stop leaks
in the 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct. The
project may cost up to $1.5 billion and
is the largest repair undertaking in
the 175-year history of the NYC water
supply system. The design will fix two
segments along the 70 year old aqueduct
that have been leaking for decades – in
the towns of Warwarsing and Newburgh.
Engineers estimate the loss of water at 20
million gallons per day, with 95% of that
occurring at the Newburgh location near
the Roseton Power plant. This was first
detected in 1992 and by 2014 a small self-
propelled submarine-shaped vehicle was
employed along a 45 mile stretch of the
aqueduct between the Rondout and West
Branch Reservoirs to definitively locate,
measure and map the leaks using sonar,
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