Dear Neighbors:
I regret the long delay between updates. The help around here is just a bit slow getting things out. If it keeps up, I'll have to fire myself.
As many of you are aware, about a dozen residents met with Town of Malta Supervisor Paul Sausville and Assemblyman Tony Jordan on September 24, 2009at the Malta Town Hall. During that meeting, we received information regarding the status of our ongoing effort to bring municipal water -- and, later, sewer service -- to the Hamlet of Maltaville and the surrounding areas, including Knapp Road. (See map link below.)
Messrs. Jordan and Sausville in particular, and members of the Malta Town Board generally, continue to provide support and encouragement for our efforts to make safe, reliable and cost-effective water available to our community.
In a nutshell, we are moving forward with the following efforts (in no particular order):
- Keeping Mr. Mackay informed, and continuing to seek his commitment to making a proposal, or a "not interested"
- Exploring possible grant funding for a feasibility study regarding our options: bringing water across Rte. 9 from Round Lake (Clifton Park water); or, tapping into the Saratoga County Water Authority line that was installed last year along the Rte. 67 stretch from Rte. 9 to the South entrance to the LFTC. (The latter has been approved by the Water Authority; however, the Water Authority cannot, by law, "retail" water to us -- a water district will have to be created to oversee and manage, e.g., infrastructure, maintenance, meter-reading, billing, etc.)
- Identifying the scope of any water district (the recent request for inclusion of the Knapp Road residents pose challenges and opportunities -- the challenges include the not insignificant expansion of the scope of an infrastructure project; the opportunity lies in the expansion of the "pool" of subscribers/customers which, one assumes, would have the desirable effect of lowering the unit costs associated with making this all a reality).
Many of you have received a letter from Assemblyman Jordan's office asking that you notify him or me if you wish to have your name(s) included in a letter he proposed to write to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The purpose of the letter is two-fold: first, we will alert DEC to the real and/or perceived concerns many have regarding well water supplies in the area affected; and, second, will formally request that DEC study the situation and report on its findings. The first point arises from numerous well failures that occur with alarming regularity (some residents have as many as eleven (11) wells, active and/or abandoned, on their property), poor water quality and flow (flow rates of under a gallon per minute are not unheard of, and many wells produce water with heavy particulate matter, clay, silt, methane and odor-producing matter), and possible health issues.
Just in case you did not receive it, I have attached a copy of the letter to one resident from Assemblyman Jordan. Please note that we need to hear from everyone as soon as possible. As you will note from the letter, it is in the form of an "opt-in" request. This means that, unless you expressly ask to be included, you will not be. Accordingly, please take a moment to affirmatively reply. For the sake of my time-management, I ask that you e-mail me, rather than calling me. Please use MALTAVILLE WATER/DEC as your subject line. (The "help" will appreciate your using e-mail as well, not incidentally.)
Finally: Please note -- this will be the last time I include the "Maltaville Google Group" in these e-mails. I have tried to build my own list for communicating with the array of residents, and some of you are getting two of everything I send out. So, if you are getting only one of this message, it could be because (a) I have you on my list, and you are not in the Google Group list; or, (b) the other way around. If you are ONLY on the Google group list, please let me know your particulars (name, address, best telephone number to reach you at, and e-mail address -- sending me a v-card would be easiest), and I will add you to my list. I always send these things out as BCC (blind cc) so that everyone's e-mails are kept undisclosed. As it is, I only have the e-mail addresses for 22 of you. It is critically important that you use your contacts, telephone lists, chatting over the fence, or any other means to ask everyone you know to get me their names, addresses and e-mail address if I do not have it already. I would also like to provide the Town Clerk with their names on my list so that, perhaps, she can get me the rest, to the extent the town has that information.
C
Very truly yours,
The Law Office of
Christopher N. Luhn, P.C.
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