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Village and town at odds over sewage treatment, infrastructure costs Village board votes to bill town as a ‘customer,’ rather than ‘partner’ By Thom Randall CORRESPONDENT
LAKE GEORGE | Expressing frustration that the town board has repeatedly questioned the accuracy of their sewer treatment bill from the village, Lake George village officials have decided to bill them not by percentage of sewage treated at their wastewater treatment plant, but merely by volume of sewage piped into the plant. This charge-per-gallon is to be determined by a rate, however, that includes a portion of the plant’s total operational and capital costs. Blais said he would have village employees
work with their engineering consultants Chazen Companies, to determine the rate the town will be charged. This new procedure, scheduled to begin in January, was approved unanimously by the village board at their Nov. 4 meeting. Blais said that for many months, town officials have claimed that the percentages the village has cited in their bills were bogus. “There’s mistrust that we’re not billing them for the correct amount — they claim they’re paying more than they should, but it’s not true,” Blais said, adding that the town officials don’t trust that their sewer plant operator is providing accurate readings of the flow meters, they don’t trust the meters themselves, and they don’t trust their calibration. “We don’t have time for nitpicking and mistrust,” Blais said. See SEWER » pg. 2
The town of Lake George’s upper sanitary sewer pumping station, located on Fort George Road, transports sewage from the Caldwell Sewer District residents to the village of Lake George’s wastewater treatment plant. On Nov. 4, the village board — frustrated by the town council members repeatedly challenging the accuracy of the gallons determined to be flowing from this pump station to the sewer plant, which determines the town’s sewer bills — decided to change their billing method as they vowed to treat the town as a “customer” of the village rather a than a “partner” in the plant. Photo by Thom Randall
County leaders eye converting rail line to recreational trail By Thom Randall CORRESPONDENT
A railroad passenger car sits idle soon after the Saratoga-North Creek Railway discontinued operations in 2018. This week, Warren County leaders voted to seek ‘abandonment’ of the county railway from Hadley to North Creek, and move toward establishing a recreational rail-trail for hikers and bikers through along the rail bed, a trail which might extend 30 more miles to the ghost town of Tahawus. Photo by Thom Randall
QUEENSBURY | For more than a decade, adventure bicyclists have envisioned a biking/hiking trail following the Hudson River through Warren County and extending 85 miles into Adirondack wilderness to the ghost town of Tahawus. Their dreams took a major step toward reality this week as Warren County Supervisors voted to seek the formal federal abandonment of the Warren County rail line and take action toward creating a rail-trail that outdoors enthusiasts have said would be “world class.” “To have a rail-trail from Saratoga
all the way into the heart of the Adirondacks — there’s nothing like it anywhere else,” county Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Conover said after the 9-2 vote Nov. 18 by the county Public Works Committee. “This concept is a ‘10 out of 10,’ and that’s the message we’ll be taking to the state of New York. In terms of the river corridor, this is a pivotal, historic moment.” Warrensburg supervisor Kevin Geraghty and Lake Luzerne Supervisor Gene Merlino cast the two negative votes, citing that they believed that the other municipalities with ownership in the rail bed — Essex and Hamlton counties and the town of Corinth — should be consulted first. See RAIL LINE » pg. 2
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