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. NEWS from the CWC
For immediate release
Contact: Diane Galusha, 845-586-1400 ext. 29

CWC provides loans, stormwater assistance

MARGARETVILLE, March 12, 2010 –The Catskill Watershed Corporation
(CWC) will assist a Lexington business in replacing a septic system and will provide
a low-interest loan to allow a Phoenicia health clinic to relocate.
The CWC Board of Directors, at its meeting March 2, approved funding to help
replace a failed septic system at Lighthouse on the Hill, a motel in the Greene County
Town of Lexington.
Owner Michael Conforti will be reimbursed up to $36,493, approximately half
the cost of a replacement system which can handle 1,160 gallons of wastewater a day
and includes a dosing system and alternative raised bed drainage field. The assistance
is provided under the CWC’s Small Business Septic Program.
A $255,000 loan was also approved for Maverick Health Clinic which is
relocating its facility from space it rented from the Town of Shandaken in Phoenicia,
to a building it is purchasing at 4080 Route 28 in Boiceville. The loan, from the
Catskill Fund for the Future, is being made in concert with financing from Rondout
Savings Bank.
The health clinic, which employs six people, has outgrown its current space but
cannot expand there due to septic limitations.
In other business, the CWC authorized continuation of a contract with Ulster
County Community College to provide $40,000 in matching funds to pay the salary
of a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) counselor to assist current and
potential business owners in the West-of-Hudson New York City Watershed.
As a result of this CWC support, free SBDC business planning services are
available to Watershed entrepreneurs by calling 845-339-0025, ext. 15.
The CWC is a non-profit organization committed to protecting water resources,
encouraging environmentally friendly economic development, and supporting
watershed education in the New York City Watershed West of the Hudson River, a
region encompassing parts of five counties – Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan
and Ulster.
For more information, visit www.cwconline.org.

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