LATHAM, N.Y. (WRGB) — A McDonald’s crew member was caught on camera dumping cooking oil and grease down Latham’s stormwater system. There’s a possibility of certain drinking systems being affected if not fixed.
A customer captured the photos while eating in the Route 9 McDonald’s parking lot on Thursday evening. Colonie Town Supervisor Peter Crummey confirmed the crew member dumped grease where it didn’t belong.
“It’s deleterious to the environment and it is not an appropriate substance to put into our stormwater system. They’re going to have to clean it. And it goes into not only that, it started in a town system where they put it, but it also then runs into the state system along Route 9,” stated Crummey…