Goshen, NY - Water Tower Proposal Goes To Full Legislature

Goshen, NY - The Orange County Legislature will, after all, have the final say on a proposal by the Village of Kiryas Joel to build a water tower on less than a half acre of land at the county-owned Gonzaga property in the Blooming Grove area.

One committee rejected the request; however, legislature Chairman William Lahey cast the deciding vote in the Rules Committee to send the proposal to the full legislature for a vote.

The committee was also briefed on the costs to the county to challenge KJ’s proposal to build a water pipeline from New Windsor to the village near Monroe, said committee Chairman Spencer McLaughlin. “To date, we have a cost of approximately $150,000, $90,000 for attorneys and $60,000 for experts,” he said. That leaves a balance of $124,000 that the county allocated to challenge the pipeline.
The county maintains the village did not conduct sufficient environmental reviews on the proposal.