You say you’ve been a Kiryas Joel resident for “…almost 25 years,” but your name does not appear in any phone directory or on the Town of Monroe tax rolls. I must therefore assume that, if indeed you exist, you are at best a part-time resident in Kiryas Joel. Otherwise you would have been aware of the lawn watering restrictions in the village, you would have mentioned the drop in water pressure every Friday and Holiday eve and you would have been aware of the numerous loads of water being trucked in to the village every so often.

Yet, in spite of all the difficulties your water supply never went dry. You’ve been visiting Kiryas Joel for 25 years now. Whenever you arrived your water supply was there for you and in the comfort of that knowledge you write that, “having peace with our neighbors is more important.” But, had you found your water supply gone, during just one of your visits to Kiryas Joel, you sure would have raised hell why the Village Administration didn’t prevent this from happening!

This will never come to pass because your Village Administration plans ahead to prevent this from happening.

You called it “extra” because you believe YOUR water supply to be secure. It isn’t! The Village Administration must constantly search for additional supplies of water even when you’re not in town, Yekim!

Finally, about “peace with our neighbors”. Why do you think the Village Administration proposed the pipeline in the first place? You claim to be a 25 year resident of Kiryas Joel, so you must have been out of town when, in 1998, Kiryas Joel’s neighbors came out in mass claiming that YOUR water supply, Yekim, not the “extra” water supply, was drying up their private wells. The County of Orange then asked Kiryas Joel to find another water source in order to restore peace in the community. Kiryas Joel did!