The public is invited to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a proposed $110 million drinking water filtration plant to be built in the Town/Village of Harrison. Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW), a nonprofit public benefit corporation that supplies water to some 120,000 Westchester County residents, authorized the release of the DEIS for public comment and review by other public agencies at its April 12, 2022 board meeting. Submission of the DEIS is an important step forward in the process to build the plant to provide filtration for WJWW’s raw water source at Rye Lake. In accordance with the New York State Department of Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency orders, the plant is mandatory for WJWW to comply with surface water treatment requirements and control harmful levels of disinfection by-products.

WHAT: WJWW has scheduled a public hearing to take comments on the DEIS for a proposed drinking water filtration plant to be built in the Town/Village of Harrison.

The meeting is open to in-person attendance and will be broadcast live on Optimum 75 / Fios 36 as well as available live online here.

The public comment period on the DEIS began April 13, 2022 and WJWW will accept written comments until June 6, 2022 by mail to Westchester Joint Water Works at 1625 Mamaroneck Avenue, Mamaroneck, NY 10543 or by email to seqr@wjww.com. For details, click here.

For information about the drinking water filtration plant and the SEQRA process, visit wjwwfiltration.org.

ABOUT WJWW

Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation formed in 1927 by its three member municipalities: the Village of Mamaroneck, the Town of Mamaroneck, and the Town/Village of Harrison pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 654, Laws of 1927, State of New York to acquire, construct and provide a joint water works. WJWW supplies water to its member municipalities and to portions of the cities of Rye and New Rochelle, serving 59,629 consumers through 14,682 service connections. WJWW also supplies water on a wholesale basis to the Village of Larchmont and Suez Water Westchester, which supplies water to the City of Rye, Village of Rye Brook and Village of Port Chester, which collectively represent approximately another 60,000 consumers.

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