Sewer Plant
Though the sewer plant serves mostly the village, it also does serve some of the town. It is now beyond its’ expected life and is in need of a rebuild. The plan now is to expand its’ capacity which should go along with expanding its’ customer base, especially to surrounding residents.
New Business
It’s easy enough to drive to New Milford, Danbury or Fishkill for the big box experience. Pawling should be the place to go for small business, full of atypical stores and restaurants.
Lakeside Park
The waterfront should be swimmable for the entire season and the grounds and buildings are in desperate need of care.
The goose problem has not been solved by culling (gathering geese and gassing them), There are better methods that actually work. Some simple redesign of the waterfront to add plantings that make the waterfront less inviting to geese. If there are plantings where preditors might hide, the geese are less at ease. There are also systems that will make goose alarm calls, fooling the real geese into thinking there is danger.
What logic is there to make a waterfront attractive to geese only to kill them and have other geese come. It’s a never ending battle and one that only the residents who use the waterfront lose.
Transfer station
The transfer station
should to be accessible to all residents and
priced according to use. The pay one price model is not fair to those who have little refuse and a boon to those with a lot. We need to change over to a per bag pricing and incorperate more recycling, including composting. If we combine composting with the sewer plant, Pawling could produce a marketable product and save residents money too. There is talk of eliminating brush at the transfer station, a convienence for many Pawling residents. Brush is a component of composting which would make accepting brush a nessesary component of the transfer station.