NEWBURGH – Mayor Judy Kennedy called Tuesday’s meeting between Newburgh city officials and the state DEC a productive session. The parties sat down to discuss the latest developments concerning Newburgh’s chemically contaminated reservoir.
Kennedy said state officials solidified commitments they have made including paying for a new filtration system to clean up Washington Lake.
“I know the state is committed to an aggressive solution of help in designing and building the new filtration process that filters out the PFOS because we do need to get Washington Lake back on line and this filtration system is the way it can happen,” the mayor said on Wednesday.
The state has just completed a study of the contamination and its source and Kennedy said the city is expected to receive it in the next few days.
The federal government is also contributing to the investigation to determine of the New York Air National Guard Base adjacent to the reservoir is a cause of the lake’s poisoning.
