GUILDERLAND — The town board today, by unanimous votes, passed a series of resolutions that will allow Delaware Engineering to proceed with an application for a state grant to install a greensand filtration system for its drinking water wells.
Supervisor Peter Barber conducted the online meeting at noon from Rome, Italy. No one spoke at the required public hearing.
Word on whether the town will receive the grant is expected by next spring, according to Mary Beth Bianconi with Delaware Engineering.
The Guilderland Town Board is lead agency under the State Environmental Quality Review Act and it was determined the project “will not have a significant effect on the environment.”
The wells are located at the town’s Department of Public Works site on State Farm Road and will disturb less than one acre of land, the application says.
Bianconi told the town board earlier that the town has three wells. One is used in the summertime when water use peaks in town; the other two wells are unused because they have high levels of iron and manganese.
At times in the summer, during peak draw, she said, the town uses more water from that single well than the half-million-gallon cap set by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation.
The grant, she said, would build a filtration system to give the town another source of water besides the Watervliet Reservoir, adding to its resilience.
“It’s a packed bed filter,” said Bianconi, explaining that the greensand in the unit binds with...
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