MONTICELLO – About a dozen people concerned about a gas compressor planned for the Town of Highland asked Sullivan County officials for help during the county legislature’s Health and Family Services Committee meeting on Tuesday.
Larysa Dyrszka, a doctor who lives in Bethel, claimed there is a history of inadequate particulate monitoring around existing Millennium Pipeline compressors, including one in the Orange County Town of Minisink. She said this is not a new concern.
“We have called attention to this for the past year,” Dyrszka said. “We asked for a study that would be done, that would be comprehensive, that would be transparent. It was a health impact assessment and we are from anything that sounds or looks like a health assessment impact at this point.”
County Attorney Cheryl McCausland they have tried twice to get that information.
“The responses that staff got back, from the best of my recollection, did not address the particulates. That is why the second go-round was created, because when the analysis was done, it didn’t give, to the best of staff’s knowledge, the information that everyone here thought you all and the legislature was interested in learning.”
McCausland said a second request went out, with no response.
Replies to a third request are due back at the county on Friday.
