NORWOOD — Students returning to Norwood-Norfolk Central School in September will have a new water supply on time, as planned. All the pipes are in place and the connection will be turned on Monday or Tuesday.

Route 56 residential properties along the path of the water line are almost back in order, with only some landscaping to do, the district's building and grounds supervisor, Larry J. Burnah, told members of the Board of Education at Tuesday's meeting.

Construction crews will wait a week or so to allow the ground to settle before landscaping is done.

"We've heard very few complaints from anybody about the work or the quality of the work," Mr. Burnah said.

State aid paid for the district to connect to municipal water after two of the school's three wells went dry. The third well had to be treated for high sulfur content.

"This is a long time that this should have been done," Mr. Burnah said.

Also Tuesday, the school board heard that Regents scores are high. The district offered 11 Regents exams and all but one had passing rates of at least 79 percent.

The earth science exam had a passing rate of 63 percent. Robin J. Fetter, high school principal, attributed that to the departure at midyear of one of the earth science teachers, forcing the district to hire a substitute for a month until the classes could be combined.