In March of 1995, at a forum sponsored by an environmental group called Save Our Community, Ward Stone, a wildlife pathologist for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Paul Connett, professor of chemistry at St. Lawrence University, told a crowd in Waterloo NY that that the required tests for ash toxicity do not give an accurate picture of the true toxicity of the ash being buried at Seneca Meadows, and that they were “being conned” if they thought otherwise.
The reason for concern is because Seneca Meadows was awarded a contract to accept up to 85,000 tons of the ash annually from the Onondaga County incinerator. Picture shown is of a trash incinerator similar to the one in Jamestown, NY (Onondaga County), where the ash originated.