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PAGGI,MARTIN &DELBENEILP
Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors
56 Main Street
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
845-471-7898
845-471-0905 (FAJ()
September 27, 2005
Leggette, Brashears & Graham, Inc.
126 Monroe Turnpike
Trumbull, Connecticut 06611
Attention: Mr. Kenneth Taylor
Reference: Town of Wappinger Rockingham Wellfield
Proposed New Well/Test Boring Pumping Test Results
Dear Mr. Taylor:
It was reported this week that MTBE was found in water wells at the Brettview
Subdivision in the Town of East Fishkill. This subdivision and the wells are directly
across Sprout Creek from the Rockingham Wellfield in the Town of Wappinger. Your
report dated September 7th, 2005 regarding the recent test borings at Rockingham
indicated MTBE was not detected in any of the water samples you tested.
We would recommend that you investigate the details of the MTBE contamination at
Brettview in East Fishkill. Will this have the potential to infiltrate the proposed new
well at Rockingham? Is it probable that the proposed new well will draw the
contamination into the Rockingham wellfield once the well is completed and operating
at full production? In essence, we would like to know if the contamination in East
Fishkill is cause to reevaluate plans to drill the new well at Rockingham.
Furthermore, if the MTBE contamination is in fact coming from Sprout Creek, as was
reported, will it affect the existing well fields at Hilltop and Meadowood?
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact this office.
J:;~
Joseph E. Stankavage
JES:law
cc: Mike Tremper
Hon. Joseph Ruggiero, Supervisor
Hon. Chris Masterson
Albert P. Roberts, Esq.
RECEIVED
SEP 2 9 2005
TOWN CLERK
Joseph E. Paggi, Jr., P.E.
Ernst Martin, Jr., P.E., L.S.
Charles R. Del Bene, Jr., P.E.