Block Island Times

Water capacity puts future growth in jeopardy

Water Superintendent John Breunig has been trying to get the attention of the town and the broader community on an issue of utmost importance: the Water Department’s infrastructure can not support future growth within the district, much less outside its official boundaries.On Monday, Oct. 18, Breunig got the chance at a special meeting between the Town Council and the Water and Sewer Commissions when they hadtheir annual joint meeting to go over and approve their management agreement. The agreement is much the same from year to year, but with the addition of a new director of public works that is, for the first time, separate from the town manager’s position, the language needed to be tweaked. Although there was some discussion on the use and possible interpretations of the phrase “and/or,” the management agreement was approvedunanimously by those present.Members of the Water District who choose to purchase their water receive an allocation of a set number of gallons they may use between July and September. If they go over that allocation they either pay a penalty or they may purchase an additional allocation and have the amount of the penalty applied to the cost.With recent growth in the

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