“A smelly, orangish stream flows into the Normans Kill near the former Duanesburg landfill.
“It’s really hard to miss,” remarked Corey Arndell, a senior from Duanesburg High School, pointing to a photo of the substance leaking from the creek bed’s rock.
Arndell is among a group of 20 area high school students from the Schoharie River Center’s Environmental Study Team, which concluded the discharge is polluting the creek. After analyzing the water quality and types of life at several sites along the creek, the students believe the discharge is originating from Duanesburg’s decommissioned municipal landfill along Feuz Lane and Dump Road.
The roughly 15-acre dump stopped accepting trash in 1991 and was capped the following year at a cost of $1.5 million, about half of which was funded through a state Department of Environmental Conservation grant. As part of the closure plan, contractors installed a system that was aimed at collecting leachate from the landfill in tanks, which were then supposed to be periodically pumped out by the town.”
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Mason, Jason. Schenectady Gazette 6 January 2009.