TUPPER LAKE — This village’s board passed several laws, set dates for meetings and addressed water violations and high electric bills in it’s Tuesday evening meeting.

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Water violation

Residents of Tupper Lake received a notice of water violation in the mail this past week, which the board said residents should not be alarmed by.

The village has been under this same violation for the past four years as the ground water is over its limit for trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, which are by-products created when leaves or algae in the water react with the chlorine disinfectant. The village’s well project will get rid of this problem.

Village Clerk Mary Casagrain said in the past the village has posted the notice in the Free Trader or Valley News but a new mandate from the state requires they start mailing it to each home.

“Our water is safe to drink,” Casagrain said. “It’s nothing new, but some people are reading it for the first time.”

As the state recommends caution for those with compromised immune systems, Casagrain suggested filtering water.

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Electric shock

The municipal electric department purchased nearly 3 million extra kilowatt hours over the previous month, as weather was cold and residents ran electric heaters to warm their houses, cellars and pipes, causing a jump in the price this month.

“If you opened your bill you might have gotten a little shock if you are all electric because it was a little higher than normal,” Mayor Paul Maroun said.

Maroun said a payment plan program will be discussed later in the month.

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Hotel study

The board passed an agreement to keep the village’s site recognizance contract for a possible hotel location with M.J. Engineering and Land Surveying under $60,000. Casagrain said that a study from HVS Global Hospitality Services will inform the scope of sites feasible for a hotel, somewhere between the Oval Wood Dish Company buildings and McDonald’s on Demars Boulevard.

The studies will be funded by grant money through a grant from Clinton County.

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Troopers as part-time officers

The board passed a law allowing retires state troopers to work with the village police as part-time officers.

“Technically, in New York State, a New York State Trooper is not considered a police officer,” Maroun said. “It’s important to us because we need a pool of part-time police officers.”

Maroun said this was a law the village has passed before and that Essex County is the only nearby county that has a similar law.

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Paper street

The board set a public comment meeting on the discontinuation of Balsam Street from village control on March 21 at 6 p.m. at the village offices. The street, which runs parallel to the Raquette River Brewing pavilion and brewery, coming to a dead end shortly after the building, and the brewery owns both properties on either side of the street.

“To open it up requires quite amount of engineering work, at this point we think we would probably be better off just to discontinue the street,” trustee Ron LaScala said. “We don’t have any use for it.”