[CPEO-MEF] West Point (NY) won't share water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No water to spare for town
West Point hits its limit

By Greg Bruno
Times Herald-Record (Orange County, NY)
May 1, 2006

Highlands - An oasis has dried up in a desert of contamination.

Despite impassioned pleas for relief from gasoline-tainted wells, the 
U.S. Military Academy cannot share drinking water with residents in the 
Town of Highlands, a new report concludes.

According to the analysis obtained by the Times Herald-Record, the 
military academy won't have any water to spare by 2014. New buildings, 
extra cadets and expanded training requirements will put pressure on 
already stressed supplies.

"There would be unacceptable risks to training cadets and providing 
adequate water resources for the Academy to accomplish its mission" if 
West Point sold its water to the town, the report concluded.

For locals in this hardscrabble community, where MTBE, a gasoline 
additive, has sullied wells for years, that means the search for water 
continues.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/05/01/news-gbwater-05-01.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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