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Southampton Trustees Want $400,000 For Broader Water Quality Effort At Mill Pond

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Michael Wright   Jan 11, 2012 10:35 AM
Jan 11, 2012 10:45 AM
A portiton of Mill Pond was treated with Phoslock in the fall.  DANA SHAW PHOTOS
A portiton of Mill Pond was treated with Phoslock in the fall. DANA SHAW PHOTOS
Satisfied with the results of a test run of an experimental chemical treatment in a small section of Mill Pond in Water Mill, the Southampton Town Trustees say they expect to move forward with plans to conduct a broader treatment early this coming spring in the entire pond.

The Trustees will pitch the details of the project to the Town Board later this month. The Town Board ultimately would have to approve issuing more than $400,000 in capital bonds to pay for the initial treatments to the entire pond.

Trustee Fred Havemeyer said this week that water samples from the treated portion of the pond, which was sectioned off from the rest of the pond with a silk curtain stretched across the mouth of a narrow channel at the pond’s... more

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