Roslyn Water District Commissioner William Costigan was elected to his fifth term as the district’s treasurer on Tuesday.
Costigan received 33 votes, district officials said. There were no write-in votes.
“I’m very happy and I’m very appreciative of the fact that people came out on such a miserable day to vote,” he said Wednesday.
Costigan, a Roslyn Heights resident, was first elected to the water district in 2002.
The Roslyn Water District covers the villages of Roslyn, Roslyn Estates, Roslyn Harbor, East Hills, Flower Hill, North Hills and parts of Port Washington and the unincorporated areas of Albertson, Glenwood Landing, Greenvale and Roslyn Heights.
Voting took place at the Bryant Library at 2 Paper Mill Road in the Village of Roslyn from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Costigan, now retired after running a printing and binding company for many years, said last week that he is proudest of the water district’s modernization of technologies that monitor its eight wells, and looks forward to the completion of a 10-year, $20.9 million capital plan that includes projects to rid contaminants from three wells that were taken offline in the last few years.
He also said he fully supports a project to build an air stripper device at Christopher Morley Park to rid the water district’s well along Diana’s Trail in the Village of Roslyn Estates of the chlorofluorocarbon Freon-22.
“We’re looking to provide a safe, adequate supply of drinking water,” Costigan said. “It’s up to us to treat it so the water distributed to the community is safe for consumption. That’s what we do. It’s one of our biggest missions, if not our biggest mission.”
