The Village of Lake Success on Monday postponed a planned public hearing on a proposal by ExteNet to install 13 cell nodes across the village to Dec. 10.
Angelique Melnyk, the village’s deputy clerk, said the application was incomplete.
Instead, trustees discussed how to go forward with their “canal project,” which would hydraulically connect Lake Success to the smaller Lake Surprise just west of it, and whether to approve an alternative analysis submitted by Princeton Hydro.
“The purpose of the project is to connect Lake Surprise to Lake Success, because right now in a drought it goes dry,” Patrick Farrell, the village administrator, said on Tuesday.
This would also allow the village to stop pumping water out of the aquifer, Farrell said.
The project is part of an environmental projects package trustees hope to pay for with a $1.1 million payment from the Department of Environmental Conservation in 2017 stemming from pollution found on the Sperry property, which Lockheed Martin was tasked with cleaning.
The other projects include the creation of a track field on Vanderbilt Drive, which was recently completed, improving the drainage system of Tanners Road and upgrading the police parking lot.
Trustees said FPM Group, the village’s environmental engineering consultant, had done design plans for the field, worked closely with Lockheed Martin and had done “all the grant work.”
But some trustees expressed concern about the designs and the cost estimates for the ballpark and canal projects presented so far.
“We don’t have to build the new Erie Canal or anything like that,” Mayor Adam Hoffman said.
“Because of the prices coming so high, we only went ahead with the track project,” Farrell said.
“If we can get a cheaper price to do the canal then that will probably allow us to do the other projects,” Farrell added.
The board ultimately tabled the matter.
