Village of Masséna requests a grant for a preliminary engineering report related to water | St. Lawrence County

Mayor Gregory M. Paquin said the Bowers Street water storage tank is an aging structure. He said the study may show he needs to be replaced, but it may not come to that.

“Theoretically, we might just need to paint it. It’s an aging structure, but it works well. If the grant got to where we could replace it, that’s eventually what we would do,” he said. said “I think in the short term the interior just needs to be painted, and that’s also expensive. But it needs to be done quickly.”

The study would also look at what to do about a water main on the Raquette River near Springs Park that recently failed. Repairs have been made to a water main, and now Massena’s Department of Public Works is waiting for the state’s Department of Transportation to give approval to hang a new line on the Route 420 bridge.

The line was losing between 60,000 and 100,000 gallons of water due to the leak. Until the leak was repaired, the DPW operated a temporary pipe to supply water to residents on the south side of the bridge.

Now they are working with the DOT to come up with a plan to hang a new line on the Route 420 bridge. The line the DPW is looking to replace is not currently in use, but the village needs DOT approval. as the bridge is located on a state-owned highway.

“It would probably be more beneficial if we could work with the Department of Transport to have this water pipe attached to the bridge, because it would be easier to repair if anything were to happen to it and would be much easier to maintain,” said Mr. dit Paquin.

The grant application was prepared for the village by LaBella Associates, and trustees approved its submission following a public hearing held at a special meeting last week.