William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports the latest in Wawarsing's years-long saga with the leaky Delaware Aqueduct. Tonight, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's commissioner, Cas Holloway, will meet face-to-face with the town's residents about their soggy basements and breached wells:
The session is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the Ellenville Village Hall at 81 N. Main St.
The commissioner isn't coming with armloads of compensatory cash, Kemble reports. Instead, he's bringing a PowerPoint presentation:
Resident Laura Smith is among the property owners who expect to be disappointed by the session after seven years of well contamination.
“The commissioner is coming up to share with us a Power Point presentation on some of the 160,000 photographs from the autonomous vehicle that went down in the tunnel,” she said.
The city is being coy about what else, if anything, Holloway will say. But spokesman Farrell Sklerov hints that something more than photographs might be shared:
“When the commissioner was up in the community (earlier this year), the commissioner committed to sharing with the community the photos ... and also committed to sharing with them a timeline for resolving (problems) in the Delaware Aqueduct,” [Sklerov] said.
3:59pm update: This post has updated to correct a misspelling of Farrell Sklerov's name.
