Health Officials Answer Town Questions On Sunshine Home's Water

NEW CASTLE, NY — A series of questions posed by the New Castle Town Board to the Westchester County Health Department shed light on the concerns expressed by some neighbors about the expansion of the Sunshine Children's Home in the town's northwest corner.

The current hot topic is radium.

SEE: Radium At Sunshine Home: Accusation, Defense, Data

The county provided town officials with answers to questions about current water quality monitoring protocols, tests and procedures; actions taken; and how the county will verify the safety of the hospital's drinking water.

"The water is in compliance with the NYS Sanitary Code and the Safe Drinking Water Act for radium. With the exception of the fourth quarter of 2015, SCHWS has been, and continues to be, in compliance with the MCl levels for radium in accordance with the SDWA and NYSSC," the health department said at the end of its April 23 letter back to the town board.

One of the other things town officials wanted to know was if a deeper well at the hospital would have an effect on neighbors' wells and water supplies, or the nearby Indian Brook Reservoir (which serves Ossining). The short answer: no.

SEE:

• New Castle Town Board letter to Westchester Department of Heath dated April 3, 2018 re: Sunshine Wells
• Westchester County Department of Health letter to New Castle dated April 23, 2018 re: Sunshine Wells