Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino, with Legislators Kelly Hoffman, Judy Breselor, and Rob Bayly, on December 2 signed the Drinking Water Protection Law that gives property owners recourse should their wells be damaged by blasting. [private]
County residents demanded the protection in the face of the Kinder Morgan’s high pressure gas pipeline proposed to run through southern Rensselaer County into Massachusetts. [/private]