MOREAU, N.Y. -- Three weeks after a $16 million sewer project in Moreau was approved by three votes, a group of residents is raising concerns. 

Moreau Town Supervisor Todd Kusnierz says he wasn’t surprised by last month’s narrow vote in favor of building along Route 9. He believes it’s best for the environment and will spur much needed commercial development along the corridor.

“The town board and myself were particularly pleased with the outcome,” Kusnierz said Tuesday -- about three weeks following the vote. “We knew in the end that we probably would come out on top because this has been the most affordable project to date.”

“I was disappointed, obviously,” said former town supervisor Preston Jenkins. “I think it is just not the right project for our community.”

While he’s long advocated for bringing sewer to the region, Jenkins is among those who believes the project is too costly.

Town leaders are applying for $5 million in grants, but the remainder would be paid for solely by the property owners within the new sewer district.

“We believe it is critical to the future of this community but it has to be affordable,” Jenkins said. “You cannot be unfair to just a small population.”

Jenkins is part of a group of residents -- most of whom are choosing to remain anonymous -- who have written letters asking three state agencies to reject the project and investigate its financial merits and validity of last month’s vote.

“We wanted to share the information with people who don’t know,” said Jenkins, whose group sent letters to the offices of the comptroller, attorney general and Environmental Facilities Corporation.

“I was very disappointed,” Kusnierz said of the group’s response. “Because the town was very careful every step of the way throughout this entire process.”

The group is concerned three residents -- the same margin the vote passed by -- were allowed to vote twice because, in addition to being private landowners, they also represent corporations that own separate pieces of property.

“I don’t if they misinterpreted it but what they did was illegal,” Jenkins said.

“The law is perfectly clear that they were entitled to vote so we are confident in the result,” Kusnierz said,

Jenkins says the group will not file a legal challenge to the vote but they are hopeful the comptroller’s office and other agencies will decline to approve the project.

Kusnierz is optimistic it will move forward as planned.

“I don’t see it providing the kind of growth that they have talked about because what it costs to come here to buy into the sewer for major facilities,” Jenkins said.

“The town of Moreau has been poised for a number of years for great things and I think this is the final piece of the puzzle toward that goal,” Kusnierz said.