General News: Water, Water Everywhere
December 19, 2006
Water was on the minds of the village board of trustees on Monday evening. Before the board meeting began, the village was honored by Jay Beaumont, the former head of the Orange County Water Authority, for its decades-long participation in the Groundwater Guardian Program. And later, discussion focused on the village’s water treatment plant, where tests are underway this week to see if it is ready to go online.
As groundwater guardians, the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, as well as the town of Cornwall, pledged to develop programs that would raise people’s awareness of the importance of groundwater and the cost of pollution.
Since it joined the program in 1997, the village has taught water conservation classes to more than 400 local residents, developed a storm water management plan, and detected and repaired water main leaks that were losing an estimated 300,000 gallons a day, according to the Groundwater Guardian Program's website.
Much of the credit for the groundwater program goes to Jay Beaumont, who single-handedly enlisted 38 municipalities in Orange County to join in. That number tops the total number that any one state has enlisted. Orange County is the only New York County in the program.
Meanwhile, village water department superintendent Bob June is busy this week with a team of experts who are testing the water treatment plant in Black Rock Forest. The treatment facility has suffered numerous setbacks over the past several years and Mayor Edward Moulton said “every indication is that all the hiccups in running the plant and the water pressue have been cured.”
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