Important village water meeting June 29 at high school

by Dan McClelland

The public meeting unhappy and concerned water customers have been waiting for since a large public village meeting over a month ago has been called for tomorrow, Thursday, June 29.

Mayor Paul Maroun announced Monday that Senator Dan Stec and Assemblyman Billy Jones were both available to attend the important session to listen to residents’ concerns. The mayor promised upset water customers at his board’s May meeting he’d bring all state parties together soon to publicly discuss the various problems with the village’s current water system- as soon as the two state lawmakers were free.

Both have been in Albany in past weeks as the state legislature is still in session.

Senator Stec and Assemblyman Jones both informed him in recent days the June 29 meeting would fit into their schedules.

The session will begin at 5:30p.m. in the high school auditorium which has seating to accompany over 200 and a stage for the presenters that evening.

Mr. Maroun has also encouraged the state department of health and environmental conservation to send their representatives to the meeting to share the state and legal perspectives on the brown water containing high concentrations of iron from the wells at Pitchfork Pond and the toxin-containing water from the Little Simond source. Also expected to attend are the village engineers from C2AE of Canton that guided the well project.