NEW SCOTLAND — The town of New Scotland is pointing to the property owners’ own words to defend itself against a lawsuit over a 40-year-old failing water line.
In an answer filed Jan. 29, the town denied the core allegations of a suit filed in December by the Newell family of Feura Bush that claimed the town owns and must maintain 2,000 feet of six-inch ductile iron pipe serving the family’s Unionville Feura Bush Road property, citing a 2021 letter in which the family explicitly called the infrastructure a “private six inch main.”
In that May 2021 letter to the New Scotland Water Committee, the Newells discuss having the water line “conveyed to the Town.” They wrote to request an extension of the existing line as their daughter planned to build a home nearby…