Looming new ballast water regulations, if implemented by the state, could devastate the port and erase the good economic picture, according to the port’s executive director and the administrator of the US St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
Known as the premier salmonid fishing destination in the entire Lower 48 States, Oswego County didn’t get that way by chance. It did it through the tireless efforts of the New York State DEC, the most productive and cost-effective arm of the state bureaucracy.
The site investigation identified an off-site groundwater plume of chlorinated solvents and an off-site chlorinated solvent vapor plume potentially impacting several offsite residential structures. The DEC will pay 90 percent of the costs.
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