Syracuse.com
by Glenn Coin
Syracuse, N.Y. – It’s been nearly six years since we’ve seen a detailed look at how much toxic mercury remains in fish in Onondaga Lake.
Honeywell is required to catch and sample fish each year to prove its cleanup is working. But because of laboratory errors and bureaucratic delays, fish caught after 2018 have still not been tested.
That has left the public, and especially those who fish at the lake, in the dark about the safety of eating those fish. And the knowledge vacuum comes during a time when Honeywell, the state and the county have made fishing easier by opening more fishing sites around the lake.