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This aerial view from Westchester Joint Water Works shows their ideal land swap location for the water filtration plant on Purchase Street. The alternate site indicated was previously bitterly opposed by Purchase Environmental Protection Association and Sylvan Development, which now have changed their positions and want the plant to be built in the 2005 location.

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Opponents of WJWW filtration plant land swap given legislative hearing

Facts, history of opposition disputed

Westchester County legislators on the Environment, Energy and Climate Committee—reviewing the County Airport land swap application of the Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW) to finally start construction of their 20-year-delayed water filtration plant—held their second hearing Oct. 18 with no sense of urgency and no schedule for future hearings.

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