Protect the Watershed - Local Community Groups Joint Statement

Tue, Jul 11, 2023 •

Last month, Westchester Joint Water Works included a flyer with the water bills, which contained “certain” claims regarding opposition to the construction of a water filtration plant. In response, all the signatories collaborated to draft this joint statement posted below, to express our unwavering support for building the plant on its original site, which is already owned by Westchester Joint Water Works.
  
Statement In Support of WJWW Building a Water Treatment Facility On The Land they Already Own June, 2023
 
We, the undersigned, strongly support the building of a water treatment facility by the Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW) as soon as feasible. However, we also strongly believe that the plant should be built on the property the WJWW already owns, which is outside of the Kensico Reservoir watershed.

  1. WJWW’s property was already prepped for construction over a decade ago.

  2. WJWW, the County Executive, and the Board of Legislators received written assurances almost a year ago that the owner of the property adjacent to their land supports building the plant on the original site without objection or condition.

  3. The FEIS which WJWW submitted in 2022 shows no compelling reason for building on the County’s forested property, which is in the Kensico Reservoir watershed and has long been identified as an important Clean Water Buffer Area, in preference over the one they already own.

 
So why does the WJWW continue to press for the County to swap land?
 
We encourage WJWW to stop wasting time and ratepayers’ money in their efforts to persuade Westchester County to swap land with them. The plant is required by federal mandate and should be built expeditiously on the land WJWW has owned for decades.
 

Signed:

Purchase Environmental Protective Association (PEPA), 501©3 Established 1914
Purchase Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Established in Purchase in 1727
Purchase Street Neighbors Working Group
The Coalition to Prevent Westchester Airport Expansion
Lower Hudson Group of Sierra Club

 

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