Seneca Meadows Landfill Expansion Battle Continues

A letter signed by more than 1,000 organizations is urging Governor Hochul of New York to stop expansion plans for the Seneca Meadows landfill.

The groups stated in a letter, "We are gravely concerned that failure to close SMI’s Seneca Meadows landfill by 2025 will adversely and irreversibly impact the vibrant wine and tourism industry in the region, prevent sustainable businesses from retaining and recruiting employees, degrade the pastoral nature of New York’s Finger Lakes, and damage the vital natural resources on which we residents of the Finger Lakes rely. As the landfill aims to increase its waste disposal operations in the Finger Lakes, the negative impacts on the public become too burdensome to bear.”

The landfill is scheduled to cease operations in 2025. It was originally supposed to close in 2009.

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