NEW LEBANON – The state budget adopted days ago includes $2 million for the Town of New Lebanon to begin proper mitigation of its landfill, which has been under order since 2009 from the State Department of Environmental Conservation to close it down.
The town has been on a waiting list for the DEC’s non-hazardous municipal landfill closure projects since 2011 with little movement in 13 years.
Since being ordered to close, the carcinogenic chemical PFAS has been discovered in the landfill, just uphill from the local public school, town hall and hamlet.
Senator Michelle Hinchey (D, Saugerties), Assemblywoman Didi Barrett (D, Hudson) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D, NYC), announced the funding while in New Lebanon on Wednesday.
