Queensbury Town Board to Host Public Meeting – On Expanding Municipal Water Service to Eastern Areas of Community

The Queensbury Town Board invites the community to a public informational meeting on Monday, April 17th, 2023, to discuss possible approaches to expanding municipal water service in the Jenkinsville area and nearby parts of Eastern Queensbury. The Town Board engaged engineering firm C.T. Male Associates to identify ways to provide municipal water in Jenkinsville after contaminants were found at low levels in some residential wells in the area. C.T. Male engineers identified two possible approaches; both of which involved installing municipal water mains in nearby areas, also unserved by town water, in order to reach the Jenkinsville neighborhood.

The alternatives and their projected costs will be presented and discussed at the informational meeting, which begins at 7:00 PM at the Queensbury Town Hall. Those who can’t attend the meeting in person are invited to join the meeting on Zoom, or to watch the broadcast of the meeting on the town web site, or on Look TV. To answer residents’ questions, the Town Board will be joined by representatives of C.T. Male, and the Town Water Department.

No decision on expanding municipal water service will be made at the meeting. The Town Board is exploring the alternatives and costs, and are soliciting public comments and suggestions. The Board’s goal is to provide municipal water service that is affordable, beneficial, and attractive to the majority of town residents in the area.

The Town Board hosted an initial community discussion on municipal water alternatives in the Jenkinsville area last August – the Town Board and C.T. Male took residents’ comments and suggestions from that meeting, and developed the updated proposals which will be presented on April 17th.