POUGHKEEPSIE – The Veolia Company has been managing the City of Poughkeepsie’s water and sewer operations for almost 30 years and now it is going to take on an even greater role with the transfer of existing DPW workers directly to their payroll.
City Administrator Marc Nelson said it is part of the ongoing restructuring of the city’s operations and will provide funding necessary for upgrades.
“The initial projections are that savings can be anywhere from $300,000 to $350,000 a year,” Nelson said. “We are designing some additional repair work that has been long deferred that may eat into some of those savings, but the gist of this program is that it allows us to capture the savings while at the same time investing those savings in critical projects throughout the city.”
The current city workers at the water and sewer plants will have the option of being picked up by Veolia or move over to another area of DPW.
