Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, September 25, 2019
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privilege to be with an American Hero of
the Greatest Generation.
Ben Bragg Jr. thanked everyone on
behalf of his family for honoring his
father. He said his father would want the
American Legion in Lloyd to survive and
prosper for another hundred years.
With a catch in his voice Bragg said,
“We have to keep this Post going. It is
probably one of the best organizations in
our town. Let’s not sit back, let’s hit the
streets and get people involved and keep it
going. That’s the most important thing to
do to honor my father. Thank you.”
NYS Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson
congratulated everyone, “for what you do
day in and day out. Your main purpose of
patriotism and instilling a sense civic duty
and commitment among the youth is to be
commended, too often things are taken for
granted. I just think it’s tremendous what
you’re doing.”
Commander Froland said the Legion
heritage of a century, “is both an
accomplishment of our Veterans and our
community. It is a product of dedication
and love and an act of patriotism and
heartfelt desire that we built the foundation
of this American Legion on.”
Froland announced that he is stepping
down as Commander as he is accepting a
job out of town. He urged people to help
this Post survive into the future.
“Keep up the good fight, go against the
odds and continue to push, it won’t always
be an uphill battle,” he said.
Froland thanked the Legion for their
support, saying the memories he made
here will be with him forever.
“I never really dreamed I would be
standing here shoulder to shoulder with all
the men that I looked up to,” he said.
Froland recalled the mission of his
service to the Legion.
“To all the Legionnaires, I have set up
obstacles and challenges, I’ve changed the
way we’ve done things here, I have gone
against the grain and you guys have gone
with me,” he said. “I’m looking forward to
being able to come back here and see what
else you have all done here; by leaps and
bounds we have come a long way.”
Froland swore in Mike Schloemer as the
new Commander of the Lloyd American
Legion Post 193. He handed Schloemer a
few personal items to add to the Legion’s
collection: an ammunition magazine and
a gas mask canister from his service in the
Middle East.
A 21 gun salute followed by the playing
of ‘Taps’ concluded the ceremony for the
late Benjamin Bragg Sr.
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number of proposed homes would need
to be supplied with 92,840 gallons per day;
“pretty significant in and of itself.”
Jurkowski said the feasibility
report, “looked at the specifics of the
infrastructure itself, so the piping and
any pumps that are downstream. On the
water side for this particular project, that
area is fed by a pump station located just
off of Rte. 9W and that feeds that entire
area of Upper North Road.”
Jurkowski said because the terrain of
the proposed subdivision is at a higher
elevation, the existing pump station
would not be able to directly feed that
area. Instead, a second pump station
would have to be installed on the site
of the subdivision, “to provide enough
pressure to get over that first ridge.” He
noted that the developer would bear the
cost of this station but once built to town
specifications, it would then be turned
over to the town to maintain it.
Jurkowski said when there are private
systems on development sites they often
do not get properly maintained and get
run into the ground with developers often
walking away.
“So dealing with it upfront and
identifying that it has to be built to
certain specifications, the developer
knows rough dollar figures so he can
budget accordingly but then at the end of
the day when it does get built, is inspected
and turned over to the town, they have a
decent product,” he said.
Jurkowski said the Water and Sewer
Committee and a fire department
representative met and discussed the
required fire flow that is needed at the site.
He said initially they discussed installing
multiple step pumps but they decided that
a water storage tank and pump station
would be preferable, similar to what was
required at the Hudson Hills subdivision
site. Jurkowski estimated that the cost of
a pump facility and tank is approximately
$2 million, which would be borne by the
developer.
Jurkowski said the Water and Sewer
Committee did not recommend that the
developer build his own wastewater
system.
“If the infrastructure is built as a
private system the likelihood of long-
term maintenance is questionable and
ultimately you’ll have a large number of
residents knocking on the Town Hall door
wanting the town to take over something
that may be substandard, if you will, as
“ A ll that wastewater
would actually have
to come down North
Road, through the
hamlet area before it
then goes down to the
sewer plant.”
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far as town specifications,” he said.
Jurkowski said he looked at two options
on how to get the wastewater into the town
infrastructure system. The first option
would be to tie into the pump station
located at the All Sport facility, which is
the northerly extent of the town’s sewer
district. To get to that Route 9W location,
Jurkowski said he is concerned about the
condition of the existing infrastructure
that is presently there along North Road
and within the hamlet area of Highland.
“All that wastewater would actually
have to come down North Road, through
the hamlet area before it then goes down
to the sewer plant,” he said.
Jurkowski said the town has
previously used a slip-lining technique
inside of old clay tile 8 inch piping.
“First they televise and then clean
out any protruding laterals that may
have been installed in the past,” he
said. “They then take a liner and drag it
through the existing sewer line and heat
it up to inflate it that retains its structural
integrity once it cools down.” He said
this reduces the overall dimension of the
pipe but from a hydraulic perspective,
“you are actually increasing its capacity
because it doesn’t have the joints and
it’s a smoother surface.” He added that
this technique could increase the life
expectancy of the pipes by 50 to 60 years,
“if not longer.” He noted that because of
the impact of the Falcon Ridge project,
they would be responsible for making
these improvements all along North
Road, nearly to Main St, at a cost of $2.2
million, which Jurkowski included in his
calculations.
Jurkowski highlighted a second option
that is preferable to the Water and Sewer
Committee and is being recommended
to the Town Board. This would have the
route come down Upper North Road and
over to Lumen Lane. It would then cross
lots to get down to the VFW Hall on
Grand St., where it would tie into an
existing sewer manhole that is located
just on the south side of the little league
ball field. This would cost $3.6 million.
“That provides the discharge point
to be closer to the sewer plant [and]
we’re bypassing the hamlet/North Road
area but we’re potentially opening up the
entire easterly side of Route 9W for future
development as well. In that area it’s been
identified as a light industrial zone, so
there is a potential for job growth and so
forth,” he said.
Jurkowski said this is the more
expensive option for the developer,
“because of the pipe runs that need to be
done. He would not need to deal with the
slip lining but it’s a more expensive and
longer route as far as the routing of the
piping itself.”
Jurkowski said the Water and Sewer
Committee also liked option 2 because
by routing the piping down through
Lumen Lane and over to Grand St.,
“we’re avoiding the hamlet area and any
restrictions in there and we’re allowing
for the potential of future growth to the
south and not taking up capacity of those
pipes within the hamlet.” He pointed out,
however, that this does not get North
Road ‘out of the woods’ because the town
would still have to fund slip lining here
at some point in the future as part of the
upkeep of the district in this area.
Jurkowski said there may be grants
available to improve and/or replace
old piping systems. He said it is a
competitive process not only for the
slip lining but for overall infrastructure
improvements. He has already submitted
a grant application to the Environmental
Facilities Corporation [EFC] for the
water treatment plant. He said other
grants are available for water and sewer
lines, but the EFC, the Department of
Environmental Conservation and the
Department of Health, “are looking
at direct water quality issues to fund
those projects first before funding other
infrastructure projects. We could get on
the list but we’re just not towards the top
of the list.”