HOOSICK FALLS, NY — After his factory-worker father died a painful death from kidney cancer at age 68 in 2013, Michael Hickey made it his mission to find out why so many people in his hometown along the Hoosic River were getting sick.
Two years later, the US Environmental Protection Agency has warned residents of Hoosick Falls not to drink or cook with water from municipal wells, and a plastics plant has agreed to install a $2 million carbon filtration system at the village water treatment plant.
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ReplyDeleteOur daughter went to Bennington College in the 1990's. We stopped in Hoosick Falls a few times for lunch and dinner on to-from college trips. It's a sweet little mountain village, once the home of Grandma Moses.
ReplyDeleteDon't build anything next to or over your water supply that could foul it. In other words, don't drink the water downstream from where the outhouse is.
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