General News: A Pipe Burst at Black Rock Treatment Plant
October 15, 2007
On Friday afternoon, Cornwall-on-Hudson water superintendent Robert June was having a peaceful lunch at the riverfront when he got a disturbing call. A pipe at the Black Rock water treatment plant had burst and water was cascading from the reservoir and down the mountainside.
June, who had expected treated water to be flowing from the new plant for the first time on Monday, instead headed back up the mountain to make a fast repair.
The cast iron pipe, which June said could be 80 or more years old, had given way and had to be replaced. June brought in a back hoe and other heavy equipment and his team from the water department worked into the night to replace the five-foot segment of pipe that had burst.
Exhausted, they left Black Rock at 11 p.m., the new pipe in place.
June told the Cornwall-on-Hudson village board on Monday night that they were refilling the line, re-flushing it, and plan to get the plant on line Tuesday. But on a project that former mayor Ed Moulton once said was plagued by Murphy’s law, June laughed and said he never likes to give precise dates.
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