Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle says the legislation he and other Rochester-area lawmakers introduced in the state legislature is aimed at protecting local water supplies, rather than helping homeowners rebuild after Lake Ontario’s rising waters go down again.
Morelle and others from the Rochester area delegation will hold a news conference Thursday to explain more. But Morelle said today the bill which has passed the Senate and is now in front of the Assembly taps into state funds put in the budget to rebuild rundown public water systems. It’s meant to give local governments emergency funding for keeping the flood waters from contaminating what comes out of your faucet.
The Irondequoit Democrat says they haven’t forgotten people are losing their yards, docks and even some homes. He says they’re looking for ways to help them, too.