The proposed wastewater plant for West Cornwall is moving closer to a town vote. The Wastewater Study Committee has been working for several years on the project along with engineer Steve McDonnell of WMC. Though no site has been designated yet, the committee heard from First Selectman Gordon M. Ridgway last week that a town meeting is set for July 24. The project, with an estimated cost of nearly $5 million, could get up to a 45% grant from the USDA and a low-interest loan for the rest. A town meeting will take place two weeks before the referendum, which will be adjourned to the vote. An informational meeting will be planned sometime before the town meeting. Absentee ballots for those who are sick or disabled, or will be out of town the day of the vote, can be issued, he said. When it was suggested those properties not meeting code should be made known, member David Dolinsky said privacy issues must be respected. Ridgway said he knows of one system on a one-tenth-of-an-acre parcel failed last year.
Wastewater facility plan for West Cornwall closer to town vote