2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 2 May 2006 06:18:18 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] West Point (NY) won't share water
 
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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