Officials seek grant for proposed Spring Lake sewer

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. » Town Board members expect to seek $750,000 in grant funding to conduct a second phase of work to add connections to the planned Spring Lake Sewer District.

The project was discussed following a public hearing last week, with Supervisor James Quigley saying there would be lines added from Lucas Avenue to Maxwell Lane.

“Maxwell Lane (is) the street being the Spring Lake Fire Company,” he said. “It would allow us to serve the Lucas Meadows Trailer Park and the second half of the ... Spring Lake Trailer Park.”

Information was not immediately available on the proposed number of additional connections or length of lines that would be installed under the application.

Funding is being sought from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal Development through the state Office of Community Renewal.

A $750,000 state grant was awarded last year to establish the Spring Lake Sewer District, which will has proposed to have about 120 connection to the Kingston city system in the project’s first phase. It will cover Catskill Avenue, Golf Terrace, Spring Lake Drive and Saccoman Avenue, as well as the Spring Lake Trailer Park, in a first phase.

Officials have noted that the two trailers parks have continued to have specific fields that have go into ground water that feeds into Spring Lake, where residents had to form a water district after the drinking water supply was found to be contaminated more than 20 years ago.

The district is contingent on the city reallocating waste water capacity limits from the Washington Avenue Sewer District. The town has an unused option to buy 70,000 of capacity that Quigley would like to have transfer to the Spring Lake system.

There were no comments on other potential project that could be funded through the federal funding.

Town officials have previously been successful in getting money through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal Development for the Brigham Lane water line extension and the the Katrine Lane water line connection to U.S. Route 9W.

“We have a history of putting together projects that dealt with serious health and safety projects in neighborhoods that have qualified as low to moderate income,” grant consultant Mark Blauer said.

Officials said there is a July 27 deadline to submit an application.