By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM -- Cedar Street resident Glenn Seymour has urged the village Board of Trustees to support developer Ron Page’s plan for an apartment complex on outer Elm Street by helping him get a reliable supply of village water to the site.

Page’s plan for 10 duplexes at 1961 Elm Street, which he is calling Elm Grove Landing, has been stymied by a village water line there that has been considered for abandonment and replacement by the village because of its age and condition. Officials have said that line is inadequate to handle the extra demand of his apartments, but there has been no action to replace the line or provide access to another line across Elm Street or yet another on Morningside Drive.

Seymour owns property that abuts the development site on the south side of Elm Street, and a house he owns there is on the same crumbling water line.

Seymour told trustees at their Monday meeting Page is offering “the use of his land and free access for a water line” for any improvement the village wants to make.

Seymour said the project would take a now-empty field and build a significant residential development on it, augmenting the tax base.