Orange County Legislature on March 6 voted for an upcoming public hearing on proposed major improvements to the county sewer plant with an estimated cost of $185 million.
Located in Harriman, New York, the sewer plant currently serves residents in nine municipalities in the southern part of the county, including Monroe, Blooming Grove, and Kiryas Joel.
The planned improvements, which are up for an in-person public hearing at the government center on March 24, will expand the plant capacity by half to nine million gallons of sewerage per day, prolong the life of aging infrastructure, and bring the system up to new state standards….