The Common Council authorized the mayor to execute an Order of Consent/Stipulation with the NYS Department of Conservation. The city had been cited for alleged violations of the Federal Clean Water Act. The city will pay $10,000 and has agreed to other stipulations including submitting a revised operation and maintenance schedule of the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The port could be forced to close if New York moves forward to enforce unworkable rules governing the treatment of ballast water carried by commercial vessels on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The proposal would require meeting strict guidelines; however, no technology exists anywhere in the world to achieve this goal, opponents point out.
At their Sept. 7 committee meeting, councilors will likely recommend which firm they want for the upgrade of the Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant. Members of the Common Council and other city officials heard presentations Monday night from the two firms in the running for the project.
At its meeting Monday night, the Administrative Services Committee approved a request by the Gay Williams, city attorney, to authorize the mayor to sign a consent decree proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation. They have commenced an enforcement proceeding against the city with respect to unpermitted overflows from the city’s sanitary and combined sewer systems, […]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced three public meetings to discuss Lake Ontario fisheries. The annual “State of Lake Ontario†public meetings will be held in Niagara, Monroe and Oswego counties during March. […]
At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council will consider a request to hire a professional soil testing firm to perform a stability analysis of the slopes at the Legends’ Softball Complex landfill site. After a tour of the site last fall, DEC officials alerted the city to three violations that are to be corrected by Feb. 1. One has been fixed; it is hoped the stability anaysis will satisfy the remaining two. […]
Novelis Corporation will pay $220,000 to settle natural resource damages claims centering on the company’s aluminum manufacturing facility adjacent to Lake Ontario in Scriba. The settlement relates to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in several areas bordering the Novelis facility, including natural and man-made wetlands, man-made ponds and a stream. […]
Matthew Todd Solomon, 43, of Constantia (Oswego County), has been sentenced in Oswego County Court to pay fines and restitution and do community service after being convicted of illegally cutting and removing trees on private property located in the Village of Central Square. The standing value of the timber that was cut and removed by Mr. Solomon was estimated by a certified forester at $10,120. […]
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