Board Members Smile and Shovel as Ground is Broken for Water Plant
The small ceremony marked a major milestone for Bedford.
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Town council members Francis Corcoran, David Gabrielson, Lee Roberts, Christopher Burdick and Peter Chryssos mark the start of the water plant construction.
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On the windswept edge of Route 35, Bedford's town board members mugged for the cameras, tossing ceremonial shovelfuls of dirt in the air, as they celebrated the long-awaited start of the construction of the new water filtration plant that will serve parts of Bedford and the Bedford Hills and Taconic Correctional Facilities.
The crowd was small but the milestone was not. The project was over a decade in the making, with town officials spending much of the last year on securing over 30 permits, awarding contracts and identifiying funding sources for the project, which will connect the town to the Delaware Aqueduct water supply.
Though Bedford Supervisor Lee Roberts made no formal remarks, she was quick to invite several of the key players who have engineered the project thus far for more photo-taking.
Among those joining the board for were: Kevin Winn, public works commissioner, Jim Hahn and Paul Volpicelli, of Hahn Engineering, George Rosamond, of Lothrop Architects, Lowell Kachalsky of O'Brien & Gere, and Joe Sisca and Chris Eldred of Sisca Construction.
For more details on the water plant, read our previous stories:
