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From left, Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, village employee Quinton Hasek, Public Works Superintendent Mitch Hotaling, and Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk celebrate the new Waste Water Treatment Plant in Cooperstown on Thursday, Oct. 7.

Cooperstown unveils
Waste Water Treatment Plant
upgrades Thursday

By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

The village of Cooperstown held an open house Thursday, Oct. 7, for its almost $9 million Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrades.

The plant, just outside the village in the town of Otsego, had been 20 years past its expiration date 10 years ago when then Mayor Jeff Katz and the Board of Trustees started searching for funds for an upgrade.

Because of tougher standards for water released into the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed starting in 2025, the upgrades were urgent legally as well as environmentally.

Environmental Facilities Corporation provided $8.7 million for the upgrade.

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