Friday, December 11, 2020 - 5:23 pm
CANTON St. Lawrence County legislators voted to turn over a once-contaminated property in Hermon to the town.
The so-called “Carr Site” at 97 Main St. was cleaned up through a county plan to target potentially environmentally contaminated properties in the county and make “these once economically productive properties beneficial to their communities again.”
During the November Finance Committee meeting, County Attorney Stephen Button said the Town of Hermon wanted the property for safety concerns “with regard to one of the oldest stone bridges in the state.”
Button said the lot is contiguous with the old stone arch bridge. He said because of a hard turn into the village approaching the bridge, “the utilization of this land would allow them to funnel the traffic in a way that would make it safer than it is.”