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Academy
sewer tie-in
still in limbo
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK --- Attorneys for the town and for Woodstock Academy are still working on an agreement that would allow the construction of a sewer line from Woodstock Academy to the town's sewer system.
Allan D. Walker Jr., first selectman, said the town and Academy officials are "still looking" at whether the town can help out the Academy. The key is that there is no debt incurred by the town.
The town is slated to receive a federal grant of more than $614,000 and a federal loan of $786,000 once the plan becomes an official town project, approved by voters.
The funds were made available by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in April.
In the spring Walker said Academy's septic system is under the large common in front of the school, where commencement exercises are held each year.
The capacity of the Academy's onsite system is 6,000 gallons per day and the current flow has reached 5,800 per day.
"It was not a project that the town was going to do, but this opportunity popped up," Walker said of the grant/loan offering.
As soon as an agreement is reached, the plan goes before the Board of Selectmen for approval, then the Board of Finance and the Water Pollution Control Authority. The proposal would then require town meeting approval.
Once the agreement is approved down the line, the sewer line would be installed from the Academy to the town's system near the Woodstock Volunteer Fire Department.