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Lloyd Harbor Trustees Take Up Water Maintenance Law

Draft of state plan to protect stormwaters would include curbing of animals.

A draft of a law requiring municipalities and villages to adopt statutes regarding the maintenance of stormwaters was introduced Monday evening at the Lloyd Harbor Board of Trustees meeting.

The law brought about discussion from the trustees, who spent the meeting deliberating how they would package the laws for Lloyd Harbor.

Written by New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, the laws require the proper curbing of dogs on public and private properties, and the prohibition of feeding wild fowl, in order to maintain storm water management.

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According to village attorney John Ritter, most municipalities already have laws similar to this, but the DEC is requiring villages to adopt statutes by March 9. Ritter said the laws will be repackaged and "adopted in Lloyd Harbor form."

Most of the discussion was spent regarding the dog curbing law, which trustee Jean Thatcher called "asinine."  Trustee William Bardo agreed with her, not getting what the point of the law would be.

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"Everybody up here has two acres of property. Most of them have woods somewhere. I can see somebody taking their dog waste and throwing it in the woods. What's the point of having to put it in a plastic bag in a garbage pail? I'm not criticizing, I just don't understand what they're trying to accomplish."

Thatcher suggested rewording the law and adding it as an addendum to an already existing anti-littering statute, instead of  making it its own separate law. The other trustees agreed to look at the village's anti-littering laws, and discussion was put on hold until next month's meeting.

A resolution was also adopted unanimously, establishing a day for village elections, which will take place on June 21.

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