Judge slows down KJ pipeline

October 20, 2005

Judge slows down KJ pipeline

Goshen – A judge today dealt a setback to the Village of Kiryas Joel, ordering the Hasidic enclave to take a harder look at its proposal to build a 13-mile pipeline to tap New York City's Catskill aqueduct.
The fast-growing village was ordered to take a harder look at the impact the project would have on sewage discharge and wetlands, acting state Supreme Court Justice Stewart Rosenwasser wrote in a nine-page decision.
Rosenwasser also said the village had failed to take "a hard look at the available alternatives" to building the pipeline.
He ordered the village to address those issues in a document called a supplemental draft environmental impact statement.
-Oliver Mackson