More rain brings more silt to the Otterkill and Black Meadow

CHESTER — Tuesday's heavy rain washed more silt from the Greens of Chester construction site into the Otterkill and Black Meadow streams.
Deputy Supervisor Bob Valentine said Tuesday that the town's engineer had a representative on-site that afternoon.
"A small breech in a check dam was allowing turbid water to exit," he told The Chronicle. "The site engineer has been notified that a repair must be made immediately. This is the action of the moment."
A July 25 storm also produced silty runoff from the Greens, a 431-unit housing development now under construction in the Town of Chester. Al Fusco of Fusco Engineering, the planning board engineer, told the town board in August that the developers are using an acceptable erosion sediment plan.
Kevin O. Frazier, public information officer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), said the agency wrote a letter telling the site owner to fix erosion and sediment control deficiencies found at the site on July 6. But the DEC did not issue a Notice of Violation because "water quality violations were not documented during our inspections," Frazier said.
Related story at chroniclenewspaper.com:
"State explains why Legoland received runoff violations and the Greens did not"