With ongoing concern about drinking water in places like Hoosick Falls and Newburgh making national headlines, residents of one upstate New York city aren't taking any chances.
How safe is the water? Hudson residents want to know: the Register-Star reports a team of freshwater scientists from the Eastern New York Chapter of the Nature Conservancy have offered to perform an analysis of the drinking water supply, at no cost to the city, to measure quality and quantity and test for possible pollution.
Hudson's water supply comes from the Taghkanic Creek, a tributary of the Claverack Creek, on the eastern side of Columbia County. Details and a timetable for the study have yet to be worked out.