Water company to meet with Malverne residents, Architectural Review Board, March 14 and 24

Representatives from New York American Water met with Malverne residents in November 2015 to discuss a new water filtration plant on property the utility owns on Cornwell Avenue. A second meeting with residents is scheduled for Monday, March 14.

Sue Grieco

New York American Water will host an informal meeting with village residents on Monday, March 14 at 7 p.m. in the community room of Malverne Village Hall to discuss its interest in installing a new water filtration plant on its property, located on Cornwell Avenue between Maple Avenue and Linden Street.

The three-quarter-acre property abuts the backyards of homes on Cornwell Avenue, Linden Street, Legion Place and Maple Street, and contains wells that have delivered water to Malverne homes for more than 30 years. The meeting was announced during the village’s March board meeting, and is open to the public.

In November 2015, the water company held its first informal meeting with residents concerning the proposed plant. At that time, water company officials said that the iron levels in the well water there had risen too high — so high that one well is approaching the maximum concentration of iron allowed by the New York State Department of Health.

Now, the water company is seeking resident and village approval to install a filtration plant to treat the water from those wells.

Later this month — on March 24 — the water company will meet with the village’s Architectural Review Board in one, potentially two, meetings. The first meeting will be focused on allowing a public utility to do work in a residential zone. If that is OK’d by the board, then a second Architectural Review Board meeting will be held to determine if the equipment and housing the utility intends to install will be acceptable to the village.

Residents with questions regarding these two meetings should contact village hall at 599-1200.