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Onondaga Lake dredging and cleanup restarts Thursday
Posted: 10.11.2012 at 6:58 AM
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GEDDES (AP) -- Dredging to remove pollutants from Onondaga Lake is expected to resume three weeks after complaints of foul odors shut down the project.

The Syracuse Post-Standard reports the work is set to begin again Thursday after contractor Honeywell International added filters and equipment covers it expects will eliminate or reduce the problem at a treatment site in the Syracuse suburb of Camillus. 

A mix of water and sediment is piped four miles from the lake to Camillus, where neighbors reported chemical odors after the cleanup began in July. Honeywell acknowledged they were a nuisance, but said they weren't a health threat.

Decades of waste dumping by industries surrounding the lake poured mercury and other metals along with solvents and PCBs into the water.

(Copyright ©2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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