{"headline18"/}Progress made on Bloomville sewers
MARGARETVILLE _ The Bloomville Community Septic System took another step closer to completion March 11 when a "clean water startup" was successfully accomplished.
Electrical systems, as well as the meters, valves and dosing stations which will deliver effluent to the sand filtration units and absorption beds, were tested and found to be functionally complete, according to a media release.
That clears the way for installation of service lines to 108 homes and buildings in the hamlet. These "laterals," to be installed in the coming months, the release said, will connect to sewage collection mains which were laid in 2008 by F. P. Kane Construction.
The new wastewater-treatment system is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2009.
The Bloomville system will replace individual on-site septic tanks and leach fields, the release said. The system is similar to one under construction in the hamlet of Hamden. The release said both are designed to protect water quality in the West Branch of the Delaware River and its tributaries, which feed New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir.
CWMP projects have been completed in Bovina and Delancey, the release said, while plans for three more _ in Lexington, South Kortright and Trout Creek _ are in progress.
For more information on CWC programs and projects, visit www.cwconline.org. Inquiries are welcome Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the CWC's offices on upper Main Street, Margaretville, and at (877) WAT-SHED (877-928-7433).
{"headline18"/}Cobleskill professor publishes book
COBLESKILL _ SUNY Cobleskill Associate Professor Erik Hage's first book, ``The Words and Music of Van Morrison,'' is due to be published Monday.
The book, released by Praeger Publishers, a division of Greenwood Publishing Group in Westport, Conn., is the first critical study to take into account the entirety of the singer-songwriter's recorded output from 1964 to 2008, a media release said.
In addition, the work weaves in biographical details, from Morrison's early influences as a boy in Belfast, Ireland, to his more recent performing years.
Hage is a widely published writer and critic and an award-winning journalist and one-time news editor, the release said. He writes a monthly column on music and popular culture for Metroland newspaper in Albany. He is also the author of a book about the work of novelist Cormac McCarthy, which will be released by McFarland & Co. in 2010, and is at work on a cultural history of the early 1960s.
In addition, he has contributed to the popular reference books "The All Music Guide to Rock," "The All Music Guide to the Blues," "The All Music Guide to Jazz" and "The All Music Guide to Hip-Hop."
An associate professor of journalism at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, he lives outside of Troy.
