The NYS DEC has announced their plans for continuing the arsenic cleanup in Middleport. 2020 will be the sixth and probably final planned season of remediation to be performed in the Air Deposition Area. Work is scheduled to begin this month (April).

The areas to be worked on will be:

1. Residential properties along both sides of State Street between William and Robertson Streets.


2. Properties on William and Washington Streets.


3. Properties on north side of State St. including and west of The HUB that have the under ground Culvert 105 passing through.


4. The residential property on Route 31E east of the village at the Niagara/Orleans County line.


5. The residential property at 85 South Main St. (a new owner has opted to have the cleanup done).


6. A strip of land along the north side of the railroad tracks between Main and Vernon.


7. The National Grid property at the corner of Vernon and South.


8. An area in front of the Middle School.


9. The parking lot between the Middle and High School.


10. An area south of the old tennis courts on Alfred St. (may included the old maintenance house).


11. Finishing of work on some properties not completed during the 2019 effort.

Not all the properties along State St. and its side streets will be remediated. A number of them have “No further action required” status and a few will be refusals. No properties on Robertson St will be remediated including those on the corners of State and Robertson (no further action). There are approximately 28 properties to be done.

Work will be performed on weekdays although, as in the past, Saturdays may be used if work falls behind.

As stated, this effort should complete the work in the Air Deposition Area. The areas yet to be remediated are the Tributary between Francis St. and the canal, followed by the tributary from the canal to Pearson Rd, then on to Jeddo and Johnson Creeks in the town of Yates. Also the Culvert from Sleeper St. north will need to be done. All this work will be engineered by FMC with DEC oversight where the work in the Air Deposition Area was done without FMC involvement. However per the new AOC, FMC will pay the estimated more than 51 million dollars spent by the DEC out of the state superfund to do the last six years of cleanup.

To view the DEC announcement concerning residential claenup for 2020 click here. The announcement includes a map of the area with the properties to be remediated shaded in yellow.