A small contingent of Country Club Drive residents begged the Maybrook village board for help at Monday’s meeting as they deal with sewage leaks in their homes.

A lengthy discussion among board members, village Public Works Supt. Matthew Thorp and village engineer Sean Hoffman discussed which sewer lines were the village’s responsibility and which lines were the homeowners’ responsibility. Both Hoffman and village attorney Kelly Naughton said the village cannot legally make any kind of repairs or changes to sewer lines that lie within the homeowners’ properties, but only to main lines in the street or village rights-of-way.

Homeowners described multiple sewage leaks inside their homes, with fecal matter soaking into floors and baseboards.

“It’s not safe for me and my children,” one homeowner said.

The problem, according to Thorp and Hoffman, is clogs in the main line that back-up sewage inside the homes, caused by the pitch of the homeowners’ lines.

At the direction of Mayor Dennis Leahy, Thorp and Hoffman are to inspect the lines and confer on possible legal solutions to ease the problem. A special village board meeting will be set in the near future to address the possible solutions.

“When that development was built, long before our time,” Leahy said, referring to the Country Club Heights project which began construction in the early 1970s, “mistakes were made (by the developer). We will do everything we can to resolve this, to work this out.”

In other business, the village board unanimously accepted a donation of about 50 acres from Carson Solar which is in the lengthy approval and planning process to construct two 3.45 megawatt solar facilities on a nearly 82-acre site bordered by Maybrook Road, Highand Avenue, Prospect Avenue and Logan’s Way on the village’s southwest side. The project will only use about 29 acres, so the developer agreed to deed over the remaining acreage to the village, a donation accepted at the meeting.