COLONIE, NY (WRGB) — Eight years in the making, the Colonie Pure Waters Department finally has a collection facility all its own.
The $7 million building was funded through a capital project. The team maintains the town’s sanitary sewer system with 61 pumps and more than 400 miles of pipes. Before this, employees worked out of a double-bay garage, made repairs from their trucks and were scattered between different buildings. There’s now in-house showers, a pump room to work in and carports…