Well that provides water to Saugerties Comfort Inn is contaminated, DEC finds.
The Comfort Inn is not near any of the village-owned water lines.
Several years ago, according to Michael Hopf, village water superintendent, the owner of the Howard Johnson hooked up to a village water line by the Land and Sea Restaurant on Route 212.
The village water department put a water meter on Howard Johnson’s hydrant while it was supplying water to the Comfort Inn to keep track of how much water was used.
Meanwhile, the owner of the Sunoco service station across Route 32 from the Comfort Inn was ordered to hire a company to find out whether the leak was coming from his gas station.
Ahmed Biooa, manager of the gas station, said last week that nothing had been found in any of the ditches dug around the station by American Petroleum of Albany.
American had been called in to find out if there was a leak at the gas station, and if so, where.
State DEC officials told him that it did not appear there was a current leak, but there may have been a leak at one time, Hopf said.
The Sunoco station and the Comfort Inn are near the Winston Farm, being considered by the village water department as a secondary source of water for customers.
“Maybe the Comfort Inn and the Sunoco station can ask to be allowed to tie in to that line,” Hopf said.