Wendy Liberatore is reporting for the Times Union the Hoosick Falls Village Board voted February 27, to accept a $330,000 payment from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International to reimburse the village for some of the costs associated with the PFOA contamination of its water supply. The resolution passed unanimously. This was not a settlement agreement and does not release the companies from future reimbursement costs and damages, said Mayor Robert Allen. "It's a big step, a good step and a helpful step," Allen said. "It's a huge help to our immediate cash flow. But there are no strings attached. It does not release them from suing them in the future." Thus far, the village has spent more than $707,000 as a result of the seepage of PFOA into the aquifer. PFOA is a chemical linked to several diseases including cancers. Read the full story in the Times Union.