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The Ithaca Journal
August 15, 2006
The Bolton Point Municipal Water System took top honors among four water
treatment plants at a taste test this past weekend and will represent the
region at the New York State Fair.
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By Jennie
Daley
Ithaca
Journal Staff
7/26/06
ITHACA — The state Supreme Court ruled Monday against Tompkins County
in a lawsuit claiming that the county's fee structure for water systems is
illegal.
The ruling was a victory for the Southern Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal
Water Commission, better known as Bolton Point.
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05/05/2006
Sometime early Saturday afternoon, the good citizens of Tompkins County
will find out if an eight-time champion and defending title holder will
keep its crown. Challengers from the City of Ithaca, Trumansburg and
Groton — all former champions themselves — will be on hand at the
Ithaca Farmers' Market to see if they can knock off a dynasty and reclaim
countywide bragging rights.
The title: Best tasting drinking water in Tompkins County. The reining
champion: Bolton Point Water System.
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By ANNE JU
Ithaca
Journal Staff
September
22, 2005
Ithaca —
City officials are deciding whether to upgrade or shut down its aging
water treatment plant, because the plant’s technology cannot keep pace
with increasing state and federal water quality standards. As it stands
now, buying water from Bolton Point could cost about $3.99 per 1,000
gallons of water, versus $4.48 per 1,000 under a reconstruction option...
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Filtering
procedure aims to reduce carcinogens
By JENNIE DALEY
Ithaca Journal Staff
August 4, 2005
LANSING — It's one of the very few lakeside buildings without a view.
A large cinder block cube feet from the shores of Cayuga Lake, the raw
water pumping station of the Bolton Point Water Treatment Plant is where
water for five municipalities starts its path from the lake to homes.
Sitting in the middle of the cavernous structure is what most would
call a gizmo, with a host of dials, a web of tubes, multi-colored valves
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By
ANNE JU
Ithaca
Journal Staff
July 12, 2005
ITHACA — City of Ithaca officials have moved a step closer to deciding
the future of city residents' drinking water, by narrowing the options for
replacing the 100-year-old water treatment plant.
A committee of city staff and
elected officials has decided to review environmental impact on both of two
options:
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Rebuild the plant at the
current site on Water Street |
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Contract with the Southern Cayuga Lake
Intermunicipal Water Commission to buy water service. Shared by five
municipalities, the largest being the Town of Ithaca, the commission
gets its water through Lansing's Bolton Point Municipal Water System. |
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By
ANNE JU
Ithaca Journal Staff
July 4, 2005 |
ITHACA — The City of Ithaca
is facing either rebuilding or shutting down its drinking water treatment
plant, in part because of federal water quality standards that could take
effect by 2008...A fourth option for the city is to shut down its water
business completely, contracting instead with the Southern Cayuga
Intermunicipal Water Commission — whose water is treated at Bolton
Point...
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East Hill project to
triple area’s water storage limit
By Jennie
Daley
Ithaca
Journal Staff
Wednesday,
November 24, 2004
Ithaca –
South Hill residents and water users along Route 366 in the area of the
Cornell orchards are a step closer to steady water pressure and consistent
availability.
With recent
approval from the Ithaca town board, all five member municipalities passed
the Southern Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal Water Commission’s East Hill
water tank project.
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MICHELE
REAVES
Ithaca Journal
Staff
October 20, 2004
ULYSSES -- Six months have passed since water began flowing in Ulysses'
Water District No. 3 and work in the area has not slowed.
"We're still hooking up
people out there," said Supervisor Doug Austic.
"Water is supplied currently
from the Six Mile Creek Reservoir, the City of Ithaca's water source",
Paul Tunison, general manager of the Bolton Point Water System.
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JENNIE DALEY
Ithaca Journal
Staff
August
24, 2004
Faced with rising construction costs, Bolton Point Water System increased
its office expansion project budget from just more than $2.3 million to $2.6
million -- a move that could trigger increased water rates.
"When the bids came in they were higher than the engineer's
estimate," said Paul Tunison, general manager of Bolton Point.
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By
MICHELE
REAVES
Ithaca Journal Staff
8/20/04
LANSING -- The blame game is on in the Town of Lansing. A
deteriorating water line is servicing homes in the town -- but just who is
responsible for its renovation is up for debate....
"The commission nor the Town
of Lansing has any responsibility for maintaining it," Paul Tunison,
general manager of Bolton Point Water System, said. "This is an
issue between Mr. Orear and the Town of Lansing. They need to ask to
have a municipal district and go in and replace the lines and bring them up
to standard, which they aren't currently."
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By MICHELE
REAVES
Ithaca Journal Staff
May 10, 2004
More than 300 people offered their opinions on the taste of water
supplied by local treatment plants in Tompkins County this weekend, with
Bolton Point Water System receiving the highest number of favored votes.
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By ANN
DiPETTA
The
Ithaca Journal
May 4, 2004
JACKSONVILLE -- As households in Jacksonville hook up to the newly
installed public water system, some residents have noticed clouds and dirt
particles in their water. This has raised questions on whether or not the
water is potable. "The water has been tested and treated and
Bolton Point employees have been checking, rechecking and flushing the
system at several locations throughout the district," Austic said.
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By MICHELE REAVES
Ithaca Journal Staff
March 22,2004 |
JACKSONVILLE -- Municipal water is only weeks away for Ulysses residents
who live in the hamlet of Jacksonville and along Route 96 within Water
District No. 3. The final phase of cleaning the pipes -- chlorination from a
storage tank on Van Dorns Corners Road at Iradell -- should be completed by
the end of next week, said Paul Tunison, general manager of the Town of
Ithaca's Bolton Point Water System.
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By MICHELE REAVES
Ithaca Journal Staff
February 21, 2004
NEWFIELD -- Board officials originally asked the Town of Ithaca if they
could connect with the Bolton Point water system as the Town of Ulysses did.
But they were turned down.
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9/25/2003
By KELLI B. GRANT
Ithaca Journal Staff
ITHACA -- Reversing an earlier recommendation, the Department of Public
Works has recommended that the City of Ithaca build its own water treatment
plant instead of entering into a partnership with Bolton Point and Cornell
University.
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7/10/2003
By KANDEA MOSLEY
Ithaca Journal Staff
DRYDEN -- The Town Board approved a site plan for a proposed expansion to
Bolton Point water treatment plant...
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7/7/03
Ithaca Journal Staff
LANSING -- A hearing on a proposed addition to the Bolton Point water
treatment plant and a discussion on a proposed Jet-Ski ordinance have been
scheduled for tonight's Village of Lansing Board meeting.
The proposed addition to the Southern Cayuga Lake Municipal Water
Commission is a 7,616 square-foot two-story office.
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6/11/03
By KANDEA MOSLEY
Ithaca Journal Staff
ULYSSES -- The Ulysses Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire
an engineering firm to construct Water District No. 3 for Hamlet of
Jacksonville residents....Jacksonville wells were contaminated by fuel leaks
in the 1970s. Formed two years ago at the urging of the Jacksonville
Community Association, the district will bring water from the Bolton Point
Plant in the Town of Ithaca to Jacksonville residents.
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4/19/03
By LAUREN BISHOP
Ithaca Journal Staff
ITHACA – The City of Ithaca
and Cornell University water systems are still in violation of a federal
water quality standard, although the most recent samples taken fell below
the standard, city and university officials said.
The
maximum amount of haloacetic acids – substances created when chlorine
reacts with organic matter in untreated water – allowed in drinking water
by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is 60 parts per billion.
Some people who drink water for many years containing haloacetic
acids in excess of 60 parts per billion have an increased risk of getting
cancer, according to the EPA....Bolton
Point, which draws its water from Cayuga Lake, has not violated the
haloacetic acids standard.
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12/20/02
By LAUREN BISHOP
The Ithaca Journal
ITHACA -- Residents served by the
City of Ithaca or Cornell University water systems will soon receive notices
in the mail saying the systems are violating a federal water quality standard....The
third major water system in Tompkins County, Bolton Point, did not violate the
federal standard for haloacetic acids.
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5/11/02
By Lauren Bishop
Ithaca Journal Staff
ITHACA — One of Tompkins County's largest water
suppliers has' received an "A" from two environmental groups for its
compliance with state and federal consumer reporting requirements.
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August 24, 2001
Ithaca Journal Staff
LANSING—Bolton Point water goes up against other
municipal water supplies from around the state next week at the New York State
Fair.
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August 2001
Gannett News Service
ALBANY—New York Gov.
George Pataki signed a bill to allow Cornell University to join the Southern
Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal Water Commission.
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June 13, 2001
By Missy Globerman
ITHACA—The end is almost in sight for the
long-awaited consolidation agreement between the City of Ithaca, Cornell
University, and the five municipalities of the Bolton Point Municipal Water
Plant.
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October 25, 2000
By Tara Sidor
The Ithaca Times
...those individual communities
would also have to agree to add fluoride to the drinking water, Bolton Point
Water System General Manager Paul Tunison said...
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July 11, 2000
By Matthew Shulman
Lansing Community News
Cayuga County (CC) last Thursday formally, asked Bolton Point's water
Commissioners to provide 200,000 gallons/day for human consumption for the
next 5 years, "to meet pressing needs in. Genoa."
CC Water & Sewer Authority director Ann Petrus explained that her
county hopes to put a water intake pipe in Cayuga Lake west of Crestview
Road and to build a $23 million, 2 million gallon per day water treatment
plant on
Lake Rd. within 5-7 years. Once
built the new plant could meet residential water demand in King Ferry Genoa, Union Springs and Aurora as: well as supplying untreated
water to large dairy farming operations that "face a
finite supply of well water."
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1/29/00
by Kevin Harlin
ITHACA – Barely minutes away by
car from the urban heart of Tompkins County, millions of gallons of water
cascade over a 60-foot dam in an otherwise seemingly unspoiled wilderness
along Six Mile Creek....Should any of the links in the chain
fail, the system is linked to Cornell University and Bolton
Point.
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1/29/00
by Lauren Bishop
Water:
In Tompkins County, it’s the most important issue in Jacksonville,
where six homes are uninhabitable because of well water contaminated by
underground fuel spills. And,
in the form of Cayuga Lake, it’s the source of cooling (and much
controversy) for Cornell University.
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1/29/00
by Missy Globerman
Whether it’s preventing contamination or
maintaining infrastructure, keeping a water system healthy is a vital
ongoing task for water operators and homeowners alike.
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1/29/00
by Lauren Bishop
Ithaca Fire Chief Brian Wilbur
remembers it well. It was
Saturday, Nov. 18, 1996, and one of the most intense fires in Tompkins
County history, visible for miles, leveled eight partially constructed
houses in the Eco Village cohousing complex just off Route 79....But a proposed water-sharing agreement
among the City of Ithaca, Cornell University and the five municipalities
that belong to the Bolton Point Municipal Water System would help ensure
that what contributed to firefighters’ difficulties in fighting the Eco
Village fire would not be a problem again.
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11/13/97
by Matt Peterson
Ithaca Times
For
most of us, not much thought goes into it. When we’re thirsty we walk to the sink and fill up a glass.
Want to brush your teeth? Wash
your dishes? Take a shower? All
you have to do is turn on the faucet and let the water flow. In fact, for many the only awareness that the water actually has a
source comes when the water bill arrives in the mail.
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