GREECE, N.Y. — Eighty years after the site near Lake Ontario helped build war ships for the American war effort, the state is suing the current owner for contamination.
Hazard goes back to WWII
The property, once home to the Odenbach Shipping Company, saw landing barges, floating cranes and tugs built before the Department of Defense took over, followed by the General Service Administration, the Monroe County Water Authority and finally Genesee Scrap and Tin Bailing Company. Genesee Scrap, officially 4800 Dewey Avenue, Inc., is now being sued for what the state calls “heavily contaminated” land dating back to the 1940s.
Arthur Bell, who lives in the apartment complex across the street, said, “They take their tractors and trucks.”…