VILLAGE SERVICES
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Department of Public Works
Tuxedo Park Fire Department
Tuxedo Volunteer Ambulance Corps
Water Main Flushing to Begin on April 19, 2010
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Water Main Flushing to Begin on April 19, 2010
Dear Water Department Customer:
On Monday April 19th the Water Department will initiate a two week program to flush the water mains. During the week of April 19th the water lines in the Village of Tuxedo Park will be flushed, and during the week of April 26th the water lines in the Town of Tuxedo will be flushed. Flushing the water mains from unwanted sediment is part of the regular long-term maintenance program for our water lines. Flushing will begin at 7:30 A.M. and end at 2:30 P.M. each day. Homes in the higher elevations may be without water past 2:30 P.M. There will be no flushing on Saturdays and Sundays. Assuming cooperation from Mother Nature, the program will be completed within two weeks.
Each day we will post a message on our answering machine (845-351-2777) to advise you where the program will begin on the following day. Owners of rental properties should inform their tenants of the flushing program.
What can you expect?
- All customers will experience discolored water during the flushing periods.
- Customers living at higher elevations will have no water or very low water pressure during flushing hours.
What can you do to lessen the impact?
- If you have a household auxiliary booster pump installed in your home, we strongly advise you to shut it off manually during flushing hours. Otherwise, the motor may be damaged as it runs continuously to draw water that is not available.
- Use very little to no water during the flushing hours. This will decrease the amount of sediment introduced into your household system.
- Do not use hot water during the flushing hours. Sediment may enter your hot water system.
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Water Mains to be Flushed Beginning October 2, 2009
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Water Main Flushing to Begin October 22, 2009
Dear Water Department Customer:
On Thursday, October 22nd the Water Department will initiate a two week program to flush the water mains. Starting Thursday, October 22nd through the week of October 26th the water lines in the Village of Tuxedo Park will be flushed. During the week of November 2nd the water lines in the Town of Tuxedo will be flushed. Flushing the water mains unwanted sediment is part of the regular, long-term maintenance program for our water lines. Flushing will begin at 7:30 AM and ends at 2:30 PM each day. There will be no flushing on Saturdays and Sundays. Assuming cooperation from Mother Nature, the program will be completed within two week.
Each day we will post a message on our answering machine (845-351-2777) to advise you where the program will begin on the following day.
What can you expect?
- All customers will experience discolored water during the flushing periods.
- Customers living at higher elevations will have no water or very low water pressure during flushing hours.
What can you do to lessen the impact?
- If you have a household auxiliary booster pump installed in your home, we strongly advise you to shut it off manually during flushing hours. Otherwise, the motor may be damaged as it runs continuously to draw water that is not available.
- Use very little to no water during the flushing hours. This will decrease the amount of sediment introduced into your household system.
- Do not use hot water during the flushing hours. Sediment may enter your hot water system.
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Water Main Flushing to Begin May 21
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Water Main Flushing to Begin May 21, 2008
Dear Water Department Customer:
On Wednesday, May 21st the Water Department will initiate a one week program to flush the water mains in the Village. Flushing the mains from hydrant to hydrant removes unwanted sediment and is part of the regular, long-term maintenance program for our lines. Flushing will begin at 7:30 AM and end at 2:30 PM each day. There will be no flushing on Saturdays and Sundays. Also, the water mains in the Mountain Farm Road area will no be flushed at this time, but will be flushed during Tuxedo Park School summer recess. Assuming cooperation from Mother Nature, the program will be completed in one week.
Each day, we will post a message on our answering machine, 351-2777, to advise you where the program will begin on the following day.
What can you expect?
- All customers will experience discolored water during the flushing periods.
- Customers living at higher elevations will have no water or very low water pressure during flushing hours.
What can you do to lessen the impact?
- If you have a household auxiliary booster pump installed in your home, we strongly advise you to shut it off manually during flushing hours. Otherwise, the motor may be damaged as it runs continuously to draw water that is not available.
- Use very little to no water during the flushing hours. This will decrease the amount of sediment introduced into your household system.
- Do not use hot water during the flushing hours. Sediment may enter your hot water system.
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Retirement Party for Richie Morrow
On
Saturday, October 27, 2007 members of the community gathered together
to celebrate Richie Morrow and his 28 years of service to the Village
as Superintendent of the DPW. The festivities took place at the Tuxedo
Park School. Mayor Stebbins presented Richie with a framed
photograph as a thank you form the village and former Mayors Rogers and
Madera sent congratulatory letters of gratitude, which were read
aloud. Several village employees as well as residents gave
speeches. Below are some photographs of the event as well as a
poem, written and read aloud by former Mayor Krober, in honor of Richie.
TODAY, A FEW WORDS & TO MORROW:
(Whose retirement comes as a sorrow)
For 29 years this man’s done what it took
To keep our Village working by hook or crook.
Sometimes by sheer muscle and always by grit,
And sometimes by bubble gum, paper clips or spit.
We owe you a lot. And we re conscious of it.
To our mains and our drains you’d provide TLC,
Every leak would be fixed and fixed A.S.A.P.
As you dug, delved and patched& and you did it with charm,
Why, the list of those things would be long as you arm.
There were roads to be paved,
And then roads to be plowed,
And then water needs pumping,
Fallen trees that need dumping,
And leaves that need carting
And I’m only starting.
If we’re honest, we’re all pretty much in the dark
About all that it takes to run things in the Park.
All a Mayor had to know
Should Mother Nature get bitchy,
Was that he could relax
It’s being handled by Richie.
For all of these years you’ve kept us spick and span
And our Village has known an extraordinary man.
If we haven’t said Thank You as much as we might,
Let me say it for all of us this special night.
And next time the winter wind’s starting to blow,
And we KNOW that we’re in for a good foot of snow,
Just turn over in bed and sink back on your pillow.
YOU don’t have to get up and go.
Now, please raise your glasses to our Mr. Morrow.
Best of Luck!
Best of Health!
Best of all!
A host of tomorrows!
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Thank You Mr. Morrow
One
of our Village’s greatest human treasures will be leaving us at the end
of this month. After twenty-eight years with the Tuxedo Park DPW,
Superintendent Richie Morrow will be retiring. Not since the inception
of the Village in 1952 has anyone dedicated more of his adult life than
Richie Morrow to the care and welfare of our Village’s infrastructure
and its constant physical needs.
Many
of us, perhaps, don’t realize the tremendous amount of hard work and
deep knowledge that is required to make sure that “things” we take for
granted actually do work. Things like our water and sewer systems,
Dams, Lakes, our twenty-six miles of roadways, storm drains - all
interwoven and connected together by a 120-year old labyrinth of pipes.
All these “things” need constant care, attention, and maintenance -
many of them every day. These responsibilities fell on Richie’s
shoulders every day, seven days a week, for twenty-eight years.
Richie,
rumor has it, knows every inch of the miles of underground pipes and
drains that criss-cross throughout the Village. He has repaired every
one of them over the years. It is common knowledge that you don’t put a
shovel into the ground in Tuxedo Park without first consulting with Mr.
Morrow. Those who didn’t would end up calling Ritchie to repair a
broken water line.
For
those of us who really know Richie, or had the privilege of working
with him while in Public Service, realize that it is his personal
character that sets him apart from the crowd. Richie truly cared for
the Village’s physical well being and took personal pride in everything
he did. His professional dedication and commitment were sincere and he
brought those qualities to work every day. He supervised our DPW with a
skilled executive capability and unique calmness. Richie quietly
accomplished whatever needed to be done, without comment or complaint.
No one ever had to tell Richie what his job was or even suggest how to
do it.
Replacing
Mr. Morrow will be no easy task. The job description calls for an
individual of outstanding personal intelligence, honesty and integrity.
Professional credentials and experience will require a person with the
combined skills of a civil engineer, architect, licensed electrician,
master plumber, skilled carpenter, certified dam expert, chemist,
surveyor, certified sewer and water plant operator, landscaper, road
paving expert, resourceful mechanic over to ombudsman…..willing to work
and worry seven days a week - often in bad weather - and for a
community that is quick to complain and slow to say thank you. Richie
possesses all of these personal attributes and professional skills, and
finding another “Richie” will be a real challenge for the Board of
Trustees.
We
sincerely thank Richie Morrow for the twenty-eight years he dedicated
to making Tuxedo Park the better place it is today. We wish him and his
lovely wife Gail many years of an enjoyable and healthy retirement.
It
only seems right that we dedicate something to someone who has
dedicated a working lifetime to our Village. We propose, therefore,
that the Village Board of Trustees seriously consider a naming
opportunity to honor and say thank you to someone who never forgot us
for twenty-eight years.
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