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BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) New York U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate potential environmental risks associated with a proposed waste management facility in Schuyler County. The facility would sit south of Seneca Lake in the town of Cayuta. According to Bob Mente, the owner of Alternative Waste Services in Newfield, which would operate the facility, it would bring in construction debris and municipal solid waste for recycling. In October, the Schuyler County Legislature passed a resolution opposing a permit for the facility. Members of the legislature asked the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to conduct a “full, fair and exhaustive” environmental review of the facility before approving the application. ....
Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com. The 2019 construction of a green storage building on the site of a proposed waste facility in Schuyler County does not violate state rules that ban construction activity without a permit, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has ruled. “The property owner (Bob Mente) has used it for storage unrelated to solid waste management,” the DEC said in a statement to WaterFront Oct. 9. “The … building would require additional construction before any solid waste management, including processing and storage, would commence.” ....