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Update from the Village of Ossining Water Department

Details: Last Updated: 24 January 2020 24 January 2020

Please see below an update from the Village of Ossining Water Department. The Village of Ossining Water Department also supplies water to the Unincorporated Town of Ossining. Thank you to Water Superintendent Andy Tiess and Village Manager Karen D'Attore for working hard to develop solutions to this situation.

"In response to taste and odor issues, Ossining is now operating the Indian Brook Reservoir at 100% for our water supply. We will use this time period to design and implement a Powder Activated Carbon System to address this and similar issues in the future. In the interim, we will continue to use 100% Indian Brook as our water source while we continuously monitor reservoir levels. System demand is low this time of year, so it will take several days for the Croton Reservoir water already in the system to flush itself out. During this time, you may continue to detect taste and odor issues. However, within the next week or two, we anticipate significant improvements.

Recently we have been experiencing taste and odor issues with our water, described by residents as a musty taste and smell. It was determined by New York City that taste and odor issues stemmed from a specific organic compound 2-Methylisoborneol (MIB), produced by algae, detected in the Croton Reservoir, where Ossining draws most of its water from.

While Ossining and Westchester County continuously monitor water quality, we have been conducting additional tests under the guidance of Kirk Nowak, Ph.D., the leading expert in the country on taste and odor issues associated with potable water, to gain additional information and develop more effective strategies to address this issue. Today, we received results from Engineering Performance Solutions, an outside laboratory that specializes in testing algae that can cause taste and odor issues. It was found that the Croton water source had a result of 105.0 (ng/L) MIB, and Indian Brook had a result of <1.0 (ng/L) MIB. We immediately called the Westchester County Department of Health to get authorization to move to 100% Indian Brook as our source.

This condition has never been experienced during the 33 years of the water treatment plant operation. Further, this is not an Ossining-only issue. The taste and odor has affected all municipalities that draw from the Croton Reservoir. Despite the taste and odor, the water has been and remains safe to drink.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience. As we embark on the construction of a new water treatment facility, we will be working closely with experts to incorporate technologies needed to prevent this and similar issues in the future.

Please contact the Indian Brook Water Filtration Plant with any questions at 914-941-0128."

Town Board Work Session & Special Meeting- Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Details: Last Updated: 03 January 2020 03 January 2020

Town Board Work Session & Special Meeting

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 - 7:30PM

1st Floor Boardroom, 16 Croton Avenue

Ossining, NY 10562

pdf Work Session Agenda: (126 KB)

1. Presentation on 2020 Census- Norma Drummond, Westchester County Commissioner of Planning

2. Discussion of 2020 Town Board Liaison Assignments

pdf 1-7-2020 Special Meeting Agenda (209 KB)

All Board Meetings are televised LIVE on GO-TV, on Channel 78. Taped shows are repeated every Thursday at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Channels 78 and 18.

Watch the live webcast of Ossining Government Access Cablevision Channel 78 and Verizon Channel 43, including Town and Village Board Meetings, or stream them LIVE here.

Supervisor's Update - January 3rd, 2020

Details: Last Updated: 08 January 2020 08 January 2020

Happy New Year!

First of all, I would like to thank the community members, Town and Village staff members, current and former elected officials, and our families and friends that joined us, all of the newly elected or re-elected officials, for the annual Town and Village of Ossining Inauguration for 2020. It was a great way to start the new year, as we reflected upon our goals for the community.

As I was sworn in for my third term as Town Supervisor, (by my son, Caleb, who is a Notary Public -- thanks Caleb!), I shared some of my priorities for 2020. One of my primary goals in 2020 for Ossining is to ensure that we get an accurate count as part of the 2020 Federal Census. An accurate count will ensure we receive our fair share of funding on the County, State, and Federal level. With literally millions of dollars on the line, it is so important that we all do our part to complete the census questionnaires ourselves, and encourage our friends, family members, and neighbors to do the same. Here in the Town of Ossining, we have partnered with the Village of Ossining to form the Ossining Counts committee, with the sole focus of ensuring an accurate count during this census. The Village of Briarcliff Manor has also formed a "Full Count for Briarcliff" committee, and we look forward to working with our partners in Briarcliff on these efforts as well. We know in 2010 Ossining was not counted accurately, and we simply cannot afford to allow that to happen again. The census also employs many people throughout the process -- visit the 2020 Census Jobs page to learn more and apply.

We are kicking this initiative off in January with several important events, starting with our first work session of the year next Tuesday, January 7th. Norma Drummond, Commissioner of the Westchester County Planning Department, will be visiting us to deliver a presentation on the census and all Westchester County has planned to ensure we are all counted accurately.

Town and Village of Ossining Inauguration 2020

Details: Last Updated: 31 December 2019 31 December 2019

Please join us at noon on New Year's Day for the Inauguration of Town and Village of Ossining Elected Officials at the Joseph G. Caputo Community Center.

As a reminder, Town offices are closing at 12noon on December 31st and will be closed all day on January 1st. We will be back in the office at 8:30am on January 2nd ready for 2020!

Happy New Year!