Syracuse, N.Y. — Onondaga County has taken the first step toward hiring the construction firm that will build a treatment plant to handle Micron Technology’s industrial waste, a project that would be the largest in county history.
A local development board appointed and controlled by Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon voted Tuesday to start contract negotiations with Kiewit Infrastructure to build the plant, which could cost more than $1 billion.
The new plant, located at the Oak Orchard Wastewater Treatment site in Clay, would be the county’s single most expensive project ever…