Ridgefield News
December 11, 1999

Marconi Addresses Middle School Summit

Marconi Urges Resolution Of Middle School Sewer Question

First Selectman Rudy Marconi addresses the "Sewer Summit"

Dec. 11 -- First Selectman Rudy Marconi today urged Ridgefield's boards and commissions to resolve their differences over the sewer system for the new middle school. Marconi, impatient with the years of delay tolerated by his predecessors, had called today's extraordinary "Middle School Information Meeting" to "lay out all the facts, so that we can decide and move on." The Board of Selectmen, Planning and Zoning Commission, Board of Education, Board of Finance, Water Pollution Control Authority, and Middle School Building Committee, were all invited by the new First Selectman to the unusual Saturday session in the High School cafeteria. Two viable alternatives have emerged for disposing of waste from the new school: an on-site treatment plant, and an extension of an existing town sewer line to reach the new site, which is adjacent to the High School. Both alterntaives would cost about $3 million, and both could be adjusted to handle increased sewage from a possible expansion of the High School itself in the coming years. Speakers from a variety of town bodies and outside consultants prsented the pro's and con's of each approach.

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