New water fountain old-fashioned and environmental

CORNWALL — A drinking fountain has always been part of a plan for ongoing improvements at Foote Fields.

With state grant funding, the town purchased land adjoining the soccer fields, built a Little League field, parking lot and pavilion, and installed a water supply.

After several years of careful spending, they are completing the project with new players’ benches, and other small additions. A recent, barely noticeable one is a hose and small drinking fountain attached to a pavilion post.

Turns out Cornwall — not for the first time — is on the cutting edge of environmental correctness. It seems public drinking fountains, which had more or less disappeared, are making a comeback. First Selectman Gordon Ridgway noted news articles about municipalities that are re-installing them to allay the glut of plastic water bottles in landfills.

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