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WEST SENECA COURT ROOM TOWN BOARD PROCEEDINGS 1250 Union Road Minutes - Meeting # 2025-24 West Seneca, NY 14224 December 22, 2025 Chairperson of the Historic Preservation Commission Paul Lang provided the following information: - Completed the NYS funded Reconnaissance Level Survey of the historic Ebenezer buildings, approximately 300 buildings - Two potential historic districts were identified: Middle Ebenezer and Lower Ebenezer - SHPO has strongly encouraged the town to move forward with local land marking designations - Requesting Town Board support for the following: formal adoption of a previously submitted modification to the town's demolition ordinance, formal opt-in to NYS General Municipal Law Sections 96-a and 119-dd enabling an optional Historic Property Tax Abatement program, and consideration of modest local financial support to advance comprehensive surveying and designation work Supervisor Dickson acknowledged the Historic Preservations efforts and stated the Town Board intends to adopt the demolition ordinance this coming year. 3. Town Engineer re Cedar Ridge Drive low water pressure Town Engineer Foote provided the following updates about the low water pressure complaints from residents in the Cedar Ridge Drive area: - This area is located within the town's Leased Managed area of the water system, where the facilities are owned by the Town but operated by the Erie County Water Authority - ECWA has performed pressure measurements and they ranged between approximately 35 and 40 psi at the southern end of the street - Developed three options based on evaluation of the water distribution system and numerous discussions with ECWA, noting each option carries different impacts to system operations, costs, and feasibility - Option 1: Connect Cedar Ridge Drive to the Elma Pressure Zone - The West Seneca pressure zone that contains Cedar Ridge is relatively large and not hydraulically compatible with the Elma zone without creating a new isolated pressure zone - Many areas within the existing pressure zone already have higher pressures, and connecting to Elma would further increase these pressures beyond desirable operating ranges of the ECWA - Isolating this portion of the water system would create significant operational challenges and would likely negatively impact available flows and pressures elsewhere in the system. - Overall, this option presents substantial system-wide impacts and is not recommended without major system reconfiguration - Option 2: Install a dedicated booster pump station at the north end of Cedar Ridge Drive - A dedicated booster pump station would increase pressures only within the Cedar Ridge area, however: a pump station would require acquiring private property to construct a building to house the pumps, controls, driveway and an emergency generator, and capital and operational costs would be high and require long-term maintenance - This option is technically feasible but costly and involves property acquisition (which may or may not be possible) and long-term O & M commitments - Approximate cost of $500,000 - $750,000 - Option 3: Individual residential booster pump - Residents experiencing low pressure may install their own individual booster pump systems: - This is the simplest and most cost-effective option with minimal impact on the town's water system - Several other residents in the area already use individual booster pumps to meet household 6 Page 9 of 201