Officials in Oakfield today held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new water tower serving both the village and the town.
The $3.5 million project was eight years in the making. The community replaced a 99-year-old, 125,000 gallon tank.
Building the tank was partially financed through federal grants. A bond covers $2.6 million of the expense.
The new tank holds 500,000 gallon of water.
Through use of a block grant, will soon have a new water use measurement system in place. Rather than meter readers, each water user will have a radio-read system installed from a company called Sensus that will allow instant reading of water usage, including reports, if needed, on hour-by-hour usage. Officials will have instant access to customer usage if a customer has questions about their account.
Pictured above: Jeremy Delyser, from Clark Patterson Lee, Joyce Grazioplene, retired clerk, Rick Pastecki, former mayor, Assemblyman Steve Hawley, and Legislator (and former mayor), Ray Cianfrini. (Note: Several more people participated in the actual ribbon cutting, but my photos from the ribbon cutting are unusable. My old, cheap wide angle lens didn't focus properly).
Assemblyman Steve Hawley checks out the interior of the new water tower.
Mayor Jason Armbrewster sent along this video taken with a camera mounted on a drone of the new tower.
