ROTTERDAM Water tank’s location chosen Old town landfill site to serve districts 3 and 4 BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.
Town officials have chosen a section of the decommissioned Rotterdam landfill as a site for a new water tank to serve water districts 3 and 4. Supervisor Steve Tommasone said engineers from Barton & Loguidice have reviewed underground soil samples from the property of Pattersonville-Rynex Corners Road and determined it would be suitable to support the tank needed to bolster the water supply in Rotterdam Junction. The town had also considered purchasing property, but decided to site it on the town land to save money. The engineers have also determined the tank won’t require the concrete pedestal that was originally planned for the project. Tommasone said the design will be a surfacemounted tank and connect through pipes that will run beneath the state Thruway. Tommasone said public works crews will remove a pair of old buildings from the site sometime this fall. He said the town will conduct another public hearing on the project and then move forward with a permissive referendum during the late fall or early winter. If all goes as planned, bid packages for the project could be sent out before February. Tommasone anticipates construction beginning in the early spring. The town is still awaiting the latest engineering results from the new site to determine how large the tank will be. Tommasone said the town would construct a tank with at least 500,000 gallons of storage. Another alternative is to build a 350,000-gallon tank, which would meet the present water usage in the two districts. If the smaller tank is built, Tommasone said, the town may be able refurbish the existing one off Leggiero Lane as an auxiliary supply. “We’ll see what the proposals are like,” he said. Despite the change in plans, Tommasone doesn’t anticipate the cost of the project to change beyond the original $2 million estimate. The two water districts with about 550 users pumped an average of 256,000 gallons per day from the existing 200,000-gallon tank; at its highest daily usage in 2007, the tank pumped 842,300 gallons, according to the town’s annual water quality report. The original project was to construct a 520,000-gallon tank on land at the SI Group’s plant off Route 5S. Company officials had offered the town an easement on the land as part of the payment-in-lieu-oftaxes agreement they signed with the Rotterdam Industrial Development Agency in February. Soil samples from the area later revealed it wasn’t suitable to support the tank and the concrete pedestal it required. The error was later attributed to faulty data compiled by an engineering company used when the town was looking at several locations. “This has really been a learning experience for everyone,” Tommasone said.
More Spring promises. In Nov 2007 the town anticipated completion by Fall 2008. We seem to be going in circles on this with new design changes to contemplate as well. Learning experience, indeed.
took the kids trick or treating out there on Holloween......what I nice area,,,setting is nice,,,houses on the river are beautiful...Mr Mallozzi has a small compound of houses that will knock your sox off,,,too bad they couldnt get some grant money to fix up main street abit......The people are real friendly too,,,,
The junction is a nice quaint community with some beautiful homes from what I remember. I really don't get out there much. There really isn't much out there. But that's what makes it so quaint.
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