Village of Munsey Park officials have scheduled an emergency meeting of its board of trustees for Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. to discuss the Manhasset-Lakeville Water District’s recent erection of a 190-foot radio tower on the village’s border with the Village of Flower Hill.
Munsey Park trustees sent an e-mail to village residents last week, saying they “like many of our residents, we’re horrified by the completely obtrusive structure that has been erected.”
The officials said they attended the water district’s Oct. 15 meeting to protest the tower.
The tower was built on land owned by the Manhasset-Lakeville Water District, near a water tower, and is part of a larger project to improve communications among emergency personnel and town and village officials, water district officials said.
In the e-mail, trustees said they have agreed with water district officials that no additional work to the site will be done until the two parties review all possible options and address them with residents.
In addition, trustees said they would gather the relevant plans and safety reports involved in the tower’s construction from the water district and make them available to residents, and schedule another public meeting.
“We will continue to explore all viable options to ensure we protect all the residents’ rights while working with MLWD to a [sic] come up with a practical solution that best addresses the needs of all parties,” according to the e-mail.
Chris Prior, the water district’s attorney, said Tuesday that the district notified Munsey Park and Village of Flower Hill of the project in April to allow village officials time to obtain any additional information they wanted.
Prior said water district officials even attended a Munsey Park trustees meeting earlier this year to discuss the matter.
When the water district did not hear from the villages, Prior said the water district went ahead with the project.
“Because it was built on the parcel that already contains the elevated water tank, the district did not think the pole would become that problematic,” Prior said.
