Grant to help water system

Local News

Discussion

COMMENTING ON STORIES:

Welcome to our story comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including the unpopular ones. We only ask that you keep your conversations clean, civil and on the topic of the story you are commenting on.

Coinciding with our websites redesign, we launched our new story comments feature through Disqus.

Disqus gives users the ability to log into our story comments feature so that they may be able to track their conversations, receive emails when their comments get a reply or to even have your comments update onto your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

For the time being, our story comments feature will continue to have the ability to post comments anonymously. We reserve the right to require registration in the future using your name and verified email address.

Not all comments are deemed printable. Some are disqualified at the newspaper’s discretion for a number of different reasons. Please follow our Online Rules of Conduct at all times.

RULES OF CONDUCT:

We reserve the right to remove comments that are unacceptable, to wit:

1. False and inacurate statements.
2. Personal attacks. Explicit name-calling.
3. Harassing, harmful, vulgar, obscene and defamatory language.
4. Threatening statements or statements that suggest violence.
5. Hate speech of any kind.
6. Intolerant comments on religion, race, age, gender, sexual preference or disabilities.
7. Accusations of criminal activity.
8. Content that is harmful to children and minors in any way.
9. References to any type of sexual activity and other private matters.
10. Random and inflammatory statements that are off topic.
11. Advertising of any kind.
12. Typing in all caps.

WE ENCOURAGE REASONABLE AND COURTEOUS COMMENTS THAT:

1. Create conversation on issues of interest and concern to fellow readers and local community members.
2. Express opinions and contrarian views.
3. Stimulate debate with respectful language.
4. Stay within the boundaries of these rules.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE ACCESS FOR:

1. Violating any of these Online Rules of Conduct.
2. Deliberately disrupting discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or spam.
3. Misrepresentation of identity or impersonating another user.

WE WELCOME:

1. Flagging violations of these rules that you observe to our attention.

MONITORING:

We monitor comments regularly Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Approval of comments outside of this time (including weekends) will be sporadic.

comments powered by Disqus

July 5, 2012

Grant to help water system

$260K to be used to build well, replace main in Arkville

Anonymous Staff Report The Daily Star Thu Jul 05, 2012, 03:30 AM EDT

Arkville is set to receive $260,000 to improve its water system, according to a media release from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer.

The water and waste disposal grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be used for upgrades in the hamlet of Arkville for the Arkville Water District. The project will install an additional well and control building, and replace water main along state Route 28.

According to the release, the system does not meet public health regulations because there is no backup water source. In addition, the distribution lines are deteriorated and undersized.

The town was working on the system when Hurricane Irene hit last year. The town has been granted additional grant funds to make this project affordable to the existing residents left in the town after the flooding.

Arkville is a hamlet in the town of Middletown.

"Efficiently supporting our rural communities with funding for clean water and sewer repairs spurs job and boosts our economy," Schumer said in the release. "Funding water renewal projects in the Hamlet of Arkville will protect public health and bring infrastructure jobs to the region even while it spurs local economic development."

The funding is part of the USDA Rural Development annual budget.