Monticello, Kaufman Bungalow Colony Sewer Line Is Causing A Stink

Monticello – Kaufman Summer Bungalow Colony is in deep sewage with the Town of Thompson for building a towering sewer line on stilts. The Colony erected a sewer pipe that runs three-tenths of a mile along Benmosche Road near the Monticello Raceway and in some places it rises to 12 feet above the road and can be seen from Route 17.

The Town Board yesterday ordered the colony to tear it down by noon Friday and threatened to take the colony's $10,000 security deposit if the work isn't completed.
Two weeks ago, the board agreed to let the colony install a temporary line into a pump station, which is outside the village line but pumps the sewage toward the village's treatment plant.
The town officials expected the pipe would be run along the ground in the woods away from the road. Instead, the colony built a gravity-fed line supported by two-by-fours planted in mounds of dirt. It was hooked into the pump station Friday and some sewage was running through the pipe yesterday.
"I realize it doesn't look that great," the colony's attorney, said. "It is there in anticipation that there will be a permanent line installed."
The colony also has had other code violations and the line needs to come down, said town officials.