Seneca Meadows
Other Costs Include Lost Business for Finger Lakes + Treatment for Health Problems Related to Landfill or PFAS direct exposure.
“Seneca Meadows”– the state’s biggest garbage dump standing at 30-stories high– is a substantial factor to environment modification. The garbage dump costs the area and New Yorkers throughout the te their constitutional right to tidy air and water, in addition to unidentified quantities in lost organization and treatment for health issue associated with direct exposure to the garbage dump. Yet, the Texas- based operator of the garbage dump, Waste Connections, recently filed documents with the DEC to include 47 acres of brand-new garbage dump area, including basically another 7 stories to the garbage dump Waste Connections intends to continue running past its existing 2025 closure date and through 2040.
“Seneca Meadows garbage dump is poisoning New Yorkers’ water and threatening the Finger Lakes’ $3 billion, 60,000 task agritourism market. While the State has actually invested millions in taxpayer cash to promote the local economy, this garbage dump has a chokehold on our regional politics, repeling services and business from being inSeneca Falls This 30-story-tall monstrosity has currently cost us huge– however that does not even represent the hidden expenses of dealing with hazardous health results or getting rid of the PFAS-laden leachate prior to it reaches drinking water sources. Not to point out the migraine-inducing odor surrounding the birth place of ladies’s rights. Governor Hochul need to direct the DEC to close this garbage dump in Seneca Falls in 2025 as initially prepared,” stated Yvonne Taylor, vice president of Seneca Lake Guardian.
Costs of Seneca Meadows:
- Exposes homeowners to air-borne particulates and hidden gasses that are understood to add to breathing health problem, asthma, and migraine headaches
- Burns nearly a billion cubic feet of methane annually in 5 flares, which is a substantial factor to environment modification and a limitation to the State’s objectives detailed in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019
- Produces 200,000 gallons of contaminated leachate daily– formed when rainwater filters through waste and includes hazardous “permanently chemicals” called per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS)
- Only one-third of the 75 million gallons of leachate produced each year are dealt with
- The remainder of the without treatment leachate is delivered off to other places throughout the state– consisting of Watertown, Steuben County, Chittenango, and Buffalo– which might or might not be screening and getting rid of PFAS
Background
Seneca Meadows Inc Landfill
The Seneca Meadows garbage dump, situated in Seneca Falls, the birth place of American Women’s Rights, is the biggest of 27 dumps inNew York State It is allowed to accept 6,000 lots of waste and produce approximately 200,000 gallons of contaminated leachate– formed when rainwater filters through damage– daily. A quarter of the garbage dump– at 30 stories high– is garbage from New York City, followed by 4 other states.
Seneca Meadows was needed to stop getting waste and stop operations by December 31, 2025. However, Waste Connections, the Texas- based moms and dad business of Seneca Meadows Inc., contributed around $280,000 in 2021 to pro-landfill prospects who won seats in Town Board and County races and are now supporting the Valley Infill, SMI’s prepared seven-story high growth. The growth would keep the garbage dump running through 2040 with allowed discarding on the Valley Infill (the previous hazardous Tantalo superfund website), increasing another 70 feet into the viewscape. Even with the prepared closure in 2025, the mountain of trash assures years of issues and removal that might take generations to reduce.
Leachate and wastewater overflow from the garbage dump includes per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS), which can trigger extensive contamination of drinking water and hazardous health effects. Seneca Meadows produces 75 million gallons of leachate each year which is dispersed not simply to Seneca Falls however likewise Buffalo, Watertown, Chittenango, and Steuben County, polluting drinking water throughout the state.
Seneca Meadows lies 2 miles from Cayuga-Seneca Canal and 3 miles from every school in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, exposing trainees to air-borne particulates and hidden gasses that add to breathing health problem, asthma, and migraine headaches. The garbage dump can not process all the methane produced and is required to burn nearly a billion cubic feet annually in 5 flares, adding to environment modification.
The garbage dump is damaging the Finger Lakes’ natural deposits that have actually caused the area being under factor to consider for a National Heritage Area Designation, which the $3 billion, 60,000-employee red wine and agritourism economy counts on. The smell from the garbage dump can be smelled from miles away, consisting of at Thruway exit 41, the northern entrance to theFinger Lakes Large, sustainable companies in the location discover recruiting and maintaining workers challenging due to the fact that no one wishes to raise a household near a harmful garbage dump.
SMI’s growth is likewise at chances with the extremely popular modification to the New York state constitution passed in 2015, which ensures every New Yorker the right to tidy air, tidy water, and a healthy environment.
About Seneca Lake Guardian
Seneca Lake Guardian is a New York State Not- for-Profit Corporation with 501( c)( 3) and is devoted to maintaining and securing the health of the Finger Lakes, its homeowners and visitors, its rural neighborhood character, and its farming and tourist-related services through public education, person involvement, engagement with decision-makers, and connecting with similar companies.
