CARMEL – Officials from Putnam County and the City of Danbury, Connecticut realize that borders are in reality only lines on paper.
The leaders of both municipalities met last week in the Hat City where Mayor Mark Boughton and County Executive MaryEllen Odell continued discussions that began several years ago as to how state borders can be erased in order to share resources, services and assets.
Odell would like to work out a deal where a direct sewer pipeline would be constructed between the Brewster area and the City of Danbury’s sewer plant. “We would be able to sewer that corridor, which is a commercially zoned corridor and currently really exists to get to Danbury and leave our money there,” she said. “Their benefit would be by purchasing the capacity, lower their rate for their users.”
Odell said it would create “a very smart economic development zone that would benefit both the City of Danbury and the County of Putnam.
“Economic development is unaware what a boundary is or where a state line is located,” said Boughton. More than half of Danbury’s workforce lives in New York State with Putnam residents making up the majority, he said.
