GENESEO – The soil that is being removed from beneath Main Street by order of the DEC is being trucked to a treatment facility on 20A, where it is being decontaminated under the eye of the DEC and Labella Engineering. Geneseo Mayor Richard Hatheway explained that the soil, which was deemed too contaminated to remain under Main Street by the DEC, is being dumped at the treatment site for treatment. "The soil is being taken to that site and … [Read more...]
Contaminated Waste Dumped Near Conservancy Land and Genesee River
GENESEO – The removal phase of the soil from the site of a Main Street Ford dealership that operated before the 1950's has begun, and the toxic soil is being transported and dumped within a few hundred yards of not only the Genesee River but farmland that is protected by the Genesee Valley Conservancy. The GeneseeSun.com followed a dump truck loaded with dug-up material from the construction site about a half mile to Rte. 63 just south of the … [Read more...]