This chapter shall be known as "Local Law No. 4 of 2024" for
the Town of Ballston which amends Local Law No. 1 of 2023. Local Law
No. 4 of 2024 reads as follows.
The quality of Ballston's water supply and waterworks is
fundamental to the quality of life in the Town. It is hereby declared
to be the intent of the Town of Ballston to provide its citizens with
waterworks that are of the highest quality possible considering operation
and maintenance, materials for construction, water quality, water
quantity, water pressure, fire protection and overall cost.
It shall be the intent of the Town of Ballston to continually
consider and assess all the immediate and future impacts on the well-being
of the Town and its potable water supply, of all actions taken with
regard to expanding, upgrading and permitting water distribution systems.
It shall be the intent of the Town that approval of any new
water district, water district extension or waterworks either within
the Town or within any adjoining municipality must include, in addition
to any and all other regulatory requirements, an acceptable engineering
assessment of how that system could be integrated into the existing
Town -wide system and the positive and/or negative impacts that any
new system could have on the existing Town system, including municipal
and private wells and aquifer supply and quality concerns.
It shall be the intent of the Town to require that all new or
proposed waterworks shall be constructed in such a way and of such
materials that they meet the minimum standards set by the Town and
that there is as much standardization in the system as is practicable.