General News: More Water to Flow from Black Rock Plant
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| The Black Rock water filter plant |
January 23, 2008
Water superintendent Robert June told the village board on Tuesday that he expects to be drawing more water from the Black Rock treatment plant in the near future.
The plant has been running on a partial schedule but June expects to have it operating around-the-clock soon, bringing production up to seven hundred to eight hundred thousand gallons a day. It is currently producing between one hundred and two hundred thousand gallons a day. A new automatic dialer will make it possible to operate the plant fulltime.
With increased usage of the Black Rock plant and well water, June anticipates lowering dependence on water from New York City’s Catskill aqueduct. He told the board that in the recent past, the department was filtering up to a million gallons of that water daily. That figure has dropped to three hundred to four hundred thousand gallons day, at a cost of about $5-6,000 a month, June said.
The water department’s board was also approved at Tuesday’s meeting. The good news is that there will not be an increase in water or sewage charges in the coming year.
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