They are still debating the Town of Watertown buying a well worn water system serving homes justouside the city near IHC.
It's called the Lettiere Tract after the family that developed the housing tract and for decades ran their own water system. Now they want to cash out and have the Town pay a half million for the old pipes.
Why? Who else is going to buy it and deal with the inadequacies and state regulators just to sell water at higher than in city prices?
It's not like the State will allow the operator to shut it down.
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That sounds cheap for anything underground. I’d scoop that up immediately.
Little Jimmy has been stuffing his pockets for years. That’s how republicans roll.
Eminent domain solves this problem. Hardly fair to be held hostage from the guy that owns the water, is he allowed to shut it off if it doesn't sell? Or is a well driller getting rich from drilling individual wells?
Maybe the town signed an NDA, gained access to “the books” and found out it makes a profit which justifies $500k. Or maybe the price includes a non compete clause.
Either way, your strategy of allowing existing customers to settle for frequent water interruptions and pay for 100% of upgrades via their bills, rather than gain access to the billions in government money like the kind the city eats for a snack before breakfast, is poorly reasoned.
Also your assumption that the person who owns the easements for existing waterline paths and the right to sell water to the homeowners, will just abandon those assets because it would take effort to keep them monetized, is naive.
The town appraised it at $641,000 but agreed on $500,000, with Lettiere noting it’s in good condition (12,000 feet of pipe and 6 hydrants sourced from City of Watertown).
Eminent domain in New York State is government overreach — plain and simple. No one should be forced to give up their home or business because the government or a private developer decides it’s “for the public good.” Property rights are fundamental. When the state can take what you’ve worked your whole life for, it undermines freedom and security.
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Bottom line is they don't want it and neither do we.
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I love how Watertown residents are still stuck in turf wars that basically ended when I was a kid in the 60’s. You talk about this tract of 100+ houses just like you talk about the north side. God forbid we welcome those homes into the city umbrella. Let’s treat them like outcasts. Screw them. The have cooler houses and neighborhoods than we do. And F the north side. They don’t need no stinking swimming pools. Let’s bring back “the flats” and call them “wops” while we are at it. It’s a shame NY was so strict about the Covid shot and masking. Probably could have used a deeper-purge of some older folks who for some reason think they have seniority in the town.
Agreed, 4:36. The Northside is a shithole, all full of welfare bums.
6:58 is that you Lettiere? Trying to sell a worn out water supply for half a mil? Is that the opposite of overreach being a reach around?
So Jeff recommends the town take it using eminent domain and therefore will be forced by law to pay $141,000.00 more for it.
It’s times like this, 8:06 where I’m pro-vandalism. And don’t think for a second people know you’re a douchebag.
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