Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton has set up a committee of City Council members to meet with their counterparts from Putnam County to see if it still makes sense to allow for the City's sewage treatment plant to accept waste from the Brewster area.  The ad hoc committee will be working with the city's attorney, Public Works officials and the Superintendent of Public Utilities. 

Putnam County officials have said that New York City watershed regulations make it a challenge to grow infrastructure in order to support any future development in the Southeast area.  Extending the Danbury sewer line through the Route 6 corridor of Brewster would connect 3.5 miles of commercially zoned land to the system, which has excess capacity. 

Boughton notes that the City recently beefed up the west side sewer intercept, a project from 1977.  He says that recently completed work makes this project a lot easier.  Boughton says adding more users to the waste water treatment plant could spread out the estimated $102 million cost of upgrades and phosphorous removal improvements.