Remsen farm owners still have not settled on eminent domain amount
“The Village of Remsen is about to begin a construction project to try to alleviate some recurring flooding issues along Main St., but to do so they have had to use eminent domain to take over a portion of some residents’ property.
Village of Remsen Attorney Jim Moseman says every time the village sees a heavy rain, the water coming down off the hill from Route 12 builds up in a crevice on the Horn Family Farm along Main St..
Moseman says when the rains get too heavy, that crevice overflows and floods surrounding properties.
The village hired an engineer to look into the problem and the firm came up with the solution of building a big catch basin and connecting it with a pipe to the nearby Cincinnati Creek.
The engineering plan helped secure $600,000 in both state and federal grants to get the solution implemented.
The new catch basin would be built partially on the Horn Family Farm and partially on the village firehouse property. The pipe will then have to go across four additional property lines.”
Liberatore, Gary. 2 News WKTV 9 January 2014.