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ERIE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY 3030 Union Road • Cheektowaga, New York 14227-1097 716-684-1510 • FAX 716-684-3937 December 2,2021 The Honorable Jason Keding Supervisor of Town of Boston 8500 Boston State Rd. Boston, New York 14025 RE: 2022/2023 Construction Projects ECWA Project No.: 199300453 Dear Supervisor Keding: In an effort to provide continuous safe and affordable water to all of the citizens within your municipality, and as you prepare for your 2022/2023 capital planning process, we urge you to secure funding for capital improvement projects to your water system. We have attached a list of recommended improvements to the system which are based upon watermain break and leak history and the age and size of existing water lines and in some cases the capacity of the existing mains. Again this year, as shown on the attached list, these recommended improvements have been prioritized into three categories (high, medium, and low). These priorities serve as our recommendation as to the order in which we feel the projects should be completed. In general, these priorities are based on the level of risk we feel is posed by the failure of a given line including the number of properties impacted, the type of property impacted (e.g., hospitals or other health care facilities or large commercial or industrial facility) as well as the complexity of the emergency repair that would be necessary should the line fail. You should review the list with your Engineering Department to determine how to proceed with implementing these important capital improvement projects and feel free to contact ECWA if you would like to discuss further. We feel that that main replacement programs are imperative to help limit interruptions of service, to maintain quality fire protection, to avoid property damage and limit the overall risk to your residents posed by unplanned failures of this critical infrastructure. Attached to this letter is a map that depicts the Town’s distribution system and shows the locations of the recommended projects. Each project has been numbered to coincide with the attached list and we have also provided the number of breaks/leaks associated with that project. We recognize that some of these projects may already be planned and if so please advise us of these projects so that we may update our records. We also recognize the challenges that municipalities have with completing sizable capital improvements and the time it takes to do so, so in the future we will begin to provide our recommendations bi-annually. This being the case,