The Block Island Joint Water and Sewer Commissions have been able to issue water allocations to two applicants that were denied previously due to lack of available capacity during the months of June and July.“I’ve thought about this a lot,” said Water Superintendent John Breunig. “My thoughts are, we approve these two with the capital improvements we made this year.”The two applicants are the Seacrest Inn on High Street and Island Home on Beach Avenue. The Seacrest asked to come on town water when the well started experiencing contamination last summer. Island Home, under new ownership, is to be demolished and the inn and employee housing buildings rebuilt. The new owners would like to install the necessary piping during construction. The plan, put forth by 585 Beach Ave LLC, which is owned by the DiBiase family, is waiting approvals from the Planning and Zoning Boards.The budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes money for the re-drilling of well six, and the increase in water storage from 300,000 to 500,000 gallons. They also hope to implement some summer water restrictions to conserve water, although those appear to be on hold until at least mid-July.“We’re taking a risk, but these
