Seaford resident urges pause on Nylon Boulevard test well, proposes west-side alternatives

Dan Cannon, a Seaford resident, told the Mayor and Council Tuesday he was asking the body to pause test-well drilling and future siting of a large water treatment facility near the intersection of Nylon Boulevard and Poplar Street and to evaluate city-owned sites on the west side of Hooper’s Landing Golf Course instead.

Cannon said the location had been discussed with city staff at least two years earlier but he and his wife discovered test-well drilling equipment on their property without prior notice. He said he and other neighbors had not been given details on how and why the Nylon Boulevard site was chosen for a test well and for a possible future treatment facility.

"We have no objection to water wells. We do have objection to a large water-treatment facility plant," Cannon said, adding that the Nylon Boulevard site is small, abuts the golf course and residential properties, and would likely generate truck traffic on…