Protests Planned for Seneca Meadows Landfill Meeting This Week

An aerial view of the vast Seneca Meadows Landfill with large mounds of waste, roads, trucks, and a building under a gray sky.
An aerial view shows the Seneca Meadows Landfill, a large waste disposal site in upstate New York. Courtesy of Mark Pitifer.

Another community meeting, another protest.

The Seneca Meadows Landfill will hold another public session to explain its plan for the Valley Infill project. The landfill has applied with the state to renew its operating permit and continue to operate for another 15 years.

The meeting is Thursday from 6pm to 8pm at the Seneca Falls Community Center. A similar meeting was held last month.

The environmental group, Seneca Lake Guardian, is urging community members to protest outside of Seneca Falls Community Center and speak at the meeting against the landfill expansion. The group is calling for the landfill to permanently close in 2025.

Meanwhile the state’s largest landfill and the plan to expand it was the subject of a New York Times story over the weekend.

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