Nov 14, 2014
Residents in CNY town avoid possible $38,500 daily fines by signing sewer agreement
From Syracuse.com; A group of residents from the town of Onondaga have avoided county and state fines of $38,500 a day by agreeing to create a new sewer district.
The deadline to sign the agreement to form the sewer district to avoid fines for Whedon Road residents was today.
On Thursday, Ron Ryan, the town's code enforcement officer, had 43 percent of the assessed value of properties agreeing with the new sewer system. He needed 51 percent to move forward.
Late Friday afternoon, Ryan said he had secured 63 percent approval, or 23 of the 34 affected homeowners. Click here to read more
OCRRA approves 20-year renewal of trash plant contract, will burn 9 percent more
Nov 12
The public agency that owns Onondaga County's trash-burning energy plant today approved a 20-year contract extension with operator Covanta Energy Corp. that calls for burning about 9 percent more garbage, an extra 30,000 tons a year.
The deal, approved unanimously today by the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency board of directors, will increase pressure on Onondaga County to import garbage from Cortland County under a proposed "ash-for-trash'' agreement.
Under the ash-for-trash deal, Onondaga County would import 25,000 tons of garbage from Cortland County and send ash residue from the OCRRA facility to Cortland's landfill.
